Title Weaving identities : construction of dress and self in a highland Guatemala town / by Carol Hendrickson.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	F1465.2.C3 H46 1995	Available	---

Edition	1st ed.
Description	xiv, 245 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-234) and index.
Summary	"An innovative ethnography of Maya traje that describes the social life of cloth, its role in the construction of identity, and its part in the changing structure of regional gender relations. Traje empowers, brings women into the global market, and is an enduring of symbol cultural knowledge"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/
Subject	Cakchikel Indians -- Clothing.
	Cakchikel Indians -- Clothing.
	Cakchikel Indians.
	Cakchikel textile fabrics -- Guatemala -- Tecpán Guatemala.
	Cakchikel textile fabrics.
	Guatemala -- Tecpán Guatemala.
	Costume -- Symbolic aspects -- Guatemala -- Tecpán Guatemala.
	Costume -- Symbolic aspects.
	Clothing and dress -- Social aspects -- Guatemala -- Tecpán Guatemala.
	Clothing and dress -- Social aspects.
	Tecpán Guatemala (Guatemala) -- Social life and customs.
	Tecpán, Guatemala -- Vida social y costumbres.
	Costumes.
	Trabajadores textiles -- Tecpán, Guatemala.
	Vestido -- Tecpán, Guatemala -- Simbología.
	Vestido -- Aspectos sociales -- Tecpán, Guatemala.
ISBN	0292731000 paperback alk paper
	0292730993 alkaline paper
	0292731200 paperback alk paper