Textile Economies Power and Value from the Local to the Transnational

Textiles have been a highly valued and central part of human societies across culture divides and over millennia. This volume is centered around the a number of themes textile production, textiles as trade goods, textile as symbols, textiles in tourism and textile the transnational processes. Textile Economies appeals to abroad range of scholars image in the intersection of material culture political economy, and globalization such as sociologists, cultural anthropologists, economists, Museum curators and historians. Book jacket.

Waher E. little is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Albany sun director of the Ethnographic Field School in Guatemala. He is the author of Mayas Marketplace and Co-author of authors of Mayas in Postwar Guatemala. Patricia A. McAnany is Kenan Eminent Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of Ancestral Maya Economies in Anthropology Perspective and Living with the Ancestors: Kinship and Kingship in Ancient Maya Society.