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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| Language: | English |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
©2004.
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| Series: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=173637 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.