Author : Mattiebelle Gittinger
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 39,48 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN :
Exhibition will be presented first at Bangkok at the Thai Cultural Centre in July 1992; from Bangkok, the exhibition will travel to Washington, D. C., where it will be presented at the the Textile Museum
Author : Jane Puranananda
Publisher : River Books Press Dist A C
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 39,56 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN :
Journey with fifteen scholars to Southeast Asia and neighbouring countries to discover the hidden meanings behind traditional textiles. Throughout Asia, textiles have played an important role in concepts of power and kingship and are also closely associated with shamanistic, Buddhist and Islamic beliefs. The papers presented in this work represent knowledge and research of leading scholars from around the world who participated in The James H W Thompson Foundation symposium in August, 2005. Diana K Myers compares Bhutanese and Southeast Asian textiles, Gillian Green covers Cambodian hangings, John Guy, Roy Hamilton and Robyn Maxwell discuss different aspects of Indonesian textiles, while Susan Conway investigates Shamanistic practices among the Shan. Barbara and David Fraser, Vibha Joshi and Piriya Krairiksh research the textiles of three other minority groups in Myanmar, while Patricia Cheesman and Linda McIntosh take us on a journey to Laos. For Thailand, Leedom Lefferts and Suriya Smutkupt look at links between Buddhism and textiles, while Thirabhand Chandrachareon discusses royal Thai brocades. Finally, Michael Howard shows how the Tai peoples of Vietnam use textiles to denote status and religion. 300 colour illustrations
Author : Maureen Fennell Mazzaoui
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 16,31 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351895583
This volume examines the role of textiles within the expanding global economy in the Age of European Exploration. Major themes include: the opening of new markets and responses to competition in the cloth trade, evolving techniques and modes of production, and changes in the patterns of consumption of local and imported cloth in a comparative, cross-cultural context.
Author : Michael C. Howard
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1476624402
Việt Nam is the home of more than fifty ethnic minorities--such as the Cham and Thai--many of which have distinctive clothing and weaving traditions linked to antiquity. The tight-fitting tunic called ao dai, widely recognized as a national symbol, has its roots in the country's 2,000-year history of textiles. Beginning with silk production in the Bronze Age cultures of the Red River, this book covers textiles in Việt Nam--including bark-cloth, kapok and hemp--through the centuries of Chinese rule in the north, a number of independent feudal societies and the brief period of French colonial rule.
Author : O. W. Wolters
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1501732609
A new edition of this classic study of mandala Southeast Asia. The revised book includes a substantial, retrospective postscript examining contemporary scholarship that has contributed to the understanding of Southeast Asian history since 1982.
Author : Rebecca M. Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 47,55 MB
Release : 2015-06-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 1119019532
A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture presents a collection of 26 original essays from top scholars in the field that explore and critically examine various aspects of Asian art and architectural history. Brings together top international scholars of Asian art and architecture Represents the current state of the field while highlighting the wide range of scholarly approaches to Asian Art Features work on Korea and Southeast Asia, two regions often overlooked in a field that is often defined as India-China-Japan Explores the influences on Asian art of global and colonial interactions and of the diasporic communities in the US and UK Showcases a wide range of topics including imperial commissions, ancient tombs, gardens, monastic spaces, performances, and pilgrimages.
Author : Bokyung Kim
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 2023-04-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 3031225163
This volume challenges existing notions of what is “Indian,” “Southeast Asian,” and/or “South Asian” art to help educators present a more contextualized understanding of art in a globalized world. In doing so, it (re)examines how South or Southeast Asian art is being made, exhibited, circulated and experienced in new ways in the United States or in regions under its cultural hegemony. The essays presented in this book examine both historical and contemporary transformations or lived experiences of monuments and regional styles (sites) from South or Southeast Asian art in art making, subsequent usage, and exhibition-making under the rubric of “Indian,” “South Asian,” “or “Southeast Asian” Art.
Author : Christopher Breward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1108851487
Volume I surveys the long history of fashion from the ancient world to c. 1800. The volume seeks to answer fundamental questions on the origins of fashion, challenging Eurocentric explanations that the emergence of fashion was a European phenomenon and shows instead that fashion found early expressions across the globe well before the age of European colonialism and imperialism. It sheds light on how fashion was experienced in a multitude of ways depending on class, gender, and race, and despite geographical distance, fashion connected populations across the globe. Fashions flowered and were reseeded, through entanglements of empire, forced and voluntary migration, evolving racial systems, burgeoning sea travel and transcontinental systems.
Author : Christoph Antweiler
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 2004
Category : CD-ROMs
ISBN : 9789812302724
Author : Ruth Barnes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 20,66 MB
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134430396
Textiles in Indian Ocean Societies considers the importance of trade, and the transformation of the meaning of objects has the move between different cultures. It also addresses issues of gender, ethnic and religious identity, and economic status. The book covers a broad geographic range from East Africa to Southeast Asia, and references a number of disciplines such as anthropology, art history and history. This volume is timely, as both the social sciences and historical studies have developed a new interest in material culture. Edited by a foremost expert in the region, it will add considerably to our understanding of historical and current societies in the Indian Ocean region.
