Weaving a future : tourism, cloth & culture on an Andean island /

The people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the Americas, are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking peasant farmers, who depend on potatoes and the fi...

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Hlavní autor: Zorn, Elayne
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2004.
Edice:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
On-line přístup:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=173637
Obsah:
  • Tourism, cloth, and culture
  • Taquile Island in Lake Titicaca
  • The cloth of contemporary Incas
  • Transforming value by commoditizing cloth
  • Visit Taquile--Isle of peace and enchantment
  • Weaving a future?
  • Traveling to Taquile.