Author : The Open University
Publisher : The Open University
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 12,89 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 1473006384
With a focus on Ghana, this 4-hour free course explored how textiles can carry a variety of meanings and values, including wealth, status and office.
Author : Doran H. Ross
Publisher : Fowler Museum at UCLA
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,81 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN :
Kente is not only the best known of all African textiles, it is also one of the most admired of all fabrics worldwide. Originating among the Asante peoples of Ghana and the Ewe peoples of Ghana and Togo, this brilliantly colored and intricately patterned strip-woven cloth was traditionally associated with royalty. Over time, however, it has come to be worn and used in many different contexts. In Wrapped in Pride, seven distinguished scholars present an exhaustive examination of the history of kente from its earliest use in Ghana to its present-day impact in the African Diaspora. Doran H. Ross is the former director of the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.
Author : A. H. O. Mensah
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 25,23 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Clothing trade
ISBN :
Author : Gilbert Bobbo Ahiagble
Publisher : Open Hand Publishing, LLC
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Ghana
ISBN : 094088061X
A contemporary male weaver from Ghana explains how his people maintain the tradition of weaving, including an explanation of the strip weaving of Kente cloth and its importance in their Ewe culture.
Author : J. Picton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 11,81 MB
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 0429708858
An illustrated survey of African textiles - their design, manufacture, and use - as part of African life, art, and culture.
Author : Karin Hofmeester
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 20,58 MB
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107108322
Machine generated contents note: Luxury and global history Bernd-Stefan Grewe and Karin Hofmeester; 1. Precious things in motion: luxury and the circulation of jewels in Mughal India Kim Siebenhuner; 2. Diamonds as a global luxury commodity Karin Hofmeester; 3. Gold in twentieth-century India - a luxury? Bernd-Stefan Grewe; 4. Chinese porcelain local and global context: the imperial connection Anne Gerritsen; 5. Luxury or commodity? The success of Indian cotton cloth in the first global age Giorgio Riello; 6. The gendered luxury of wax prints in South Ghana: a local luxury good with global roots Silvia Ruschak; 7. From Venice to East Africa: history, uses and meanings of glass beads Karin Pallaver; 8. Imports and autarky: tortoiseshell in early modern Japan Martha Chaiklin; 9. Tickling and klicking the ivories - the metamorphosis of a global commodity in the nineteenth century Jonas Kranzer; 10. The conservation of luxury: safari hunting and the consumption of wildlife in twentieth-century East Africa Bernhard Gissibl; 11. Luxury as a global phenomenon: concluding remarks Bernd-Stefan Grewe and Karin Hofmeester
Author : Alisa LaGamma
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 41,86 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Textile fabrics
ISBN : 1588392937
Author : Boatema Boateng
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 16,53 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : 0816670021
The intersection of Western intellectual property law and traditional knowledge in Africa.
Author : John Gillow
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,23 MB
Release : 2003-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 0811841669
Traces a boy's journey across India as he searches for a sacred buffalo bell stolen from his tribe.
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Page : 253 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 2012
Category :
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