Costume and History in Highland Ecuador
Zoomicon-zoom-in
Costume and History in Highland Ecuador
Costume and History in Highland Ecuador

Costume and History in Highland Ecuador

By
Ann Pollard Rowe (Contributor) Ann Pollard Rowe (Author) Lynn A. Meisch (Author)  

Hardback

Available / dispatched within 1 - 4 weeks

Quantity

Also available on eBook for £52.99. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo

The traditional costumes worn by people in the Andes-women's woolen skirts, men's ponchos, woven belts, and white felt hats-instantly identify them as natives of the region and serve as revealing markers of ethnicity, social class, gender, age, and so on. Because costume expresses so much, scholars study it to learn how the indigenous people of the Andes have identified themselves over time, as well as how others have identified and influenced them. Costume and History in Highland Ecuador assembles for the first time for any Andean country the evidence for indigenous costume from the entire chronological range of prehistory and history. The contributors glean a remarkable amount of information from pre-Hispanic ceramics and textile tools, archaeological textiles from the Inca empire in Peru, written accounts from the colonial period, nineteenth-century European-style pictorial representations, and twentieth-century textiles in museum collections. Their findings reveal that several garments introduced by the Incas, including men's tunics and women's wrapped dresses, shawls, and belts, had a remarkable longevity. They also demonstrate that the hybrid poncho from Chile and the rebozo from Mexico diffused in South America during the colonial period, and that the development of the rebozo in particular was more interesting and complex than has previously been suggested. The adoption of Spanish garments such as the pollera (skirt) and man's shirt were also less straightforward and of more recent vintage than might be expected. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning -No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Ann Pollard Rowe was Curator of Western Hemisphere Textiles at the Textile Museum for most of her career and is presently Research Associate of Western Hemisphere Textiles there. She also edited and contributed to Costume and Identity in Highland Ecuador, which examines contemporary costume, and Weaving and Dyeing in Highland Ecuador, which investigates textile techniques and production.
  • Contributor: Ann Pollard Rowe
  • Imprint: University of Texas Press
  • ISBN13: 9780292725911
  • Number of Pages: 416
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x30mm
  • Packaged Weight: 822
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: University of Texas Press
  • Release Date: 2011-06-01
  • Series: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Ann Pollard Rowe was Curator of Western Hemisphere Textiles at the Textile Museum for most of her career and is presently Research Associate of Western Hemisphere Textiles there. She also edited and contributed to Costume and Identity in Highland Ecuador, which examines contemporary costume, and Weaving and Dyeing in Highland Ecuador, which investigates textile techniques and production.

Delivery Options

Home Delivery

Store Delivery

Free Returns

We hope you are delighted with everything you buy from us. However, if you are not, we will refund or replace your order up to 30 days after purchase. Terms and exclusions apply; find out more from our Returns and Refunds Policy.