Textile Economies: Power and Value from the Local to the Transnational

The economy of textiles provides insight into the fabric of social relations, local and global politics, and diverse ideologies. Textile production and exchange represent a key node for the intersections of multiple aspects of ancient and modern economies, including social-class relations, gender, tourism, exchange, commerce, and transpolity relationships. A political economy of textiles, discussed from a broad interdisciplinary perspective, offers ways to understand cloth and clothing as parts of mutually constitutive processes that shape and reflect economic practices, cultural ideologies, and sociopolitical rank.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0759120617
• ISBN13: 9780759120617
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Altamira Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"