Author: ROWE, ANN POLLARD ( ED. )
Title: Costume & Identity in Highland Ecuador.
Description: Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press / Textile Museum (Washington D. C.), 1998.. First Edition. XXII + 305 p., 263 b/w plus 17 full-page color photographs, 5 drawings, 6 maps, bibliogr., index, 21x25 cm. HARDCOVER: (Or. pictorial wrappers. AS NEW) ¶ This first detailed survey of Ecuadorian costume is already now the standard reference for this topic. It is focusing on clothing, the creation of textiles, loom styles, jewelry, hairstyles, and bodiily adornment--in a society changing from a subsistence to a wage-based economy.

Keywords: Latin America South America Ecuador Ethnography Anthropology Costume, fashion, textile art South American Indians


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