Between the Folds: Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travel from Sumba

From: The Australian Journal of Anthropology | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Jill Forshee. Between the Folds: Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travel from Sumba. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. 2000. Pp. 384. index, bibliog. US$52 (Hc.), ISBN 0-82482-288-9; US$23.95 (Pb.), ISBN 0-82482-234-6.

Tourism, globalisation, transformations of culture brought by capitalism, circular migration motivated by economics, and individuals' negotiations with the new conditions which surround them have all become major themes for writers exploring post-modern ideas in the so-called 'Third World.' Attempting to show the transformations of fabric design as representative of the ...

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