Margot Blum Schevill is a textile consultant for the P. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Janet Catherine Berlo is Professor of Art History and Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester.

Edward B. Dwyer is Professor of Anthropology at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Preface to the 1996 Edition


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Spinning and WeavingasFemale Gender Identityin PostClassic Mexico


Chapter Three


Traditional Dress
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Chapter Eight
85

The Image ofthe Uncivilized WildMan in Textiles fromthe Department of Cuzco Peru Lee AnneWilson
1990

Chapter Thirteen
1971

The Marketing ofTextiles
1925

Conclusion
1946

Women and Aesthetic Strategies in Latin
1954

Additional References
1990

This is a vital, worthwhile book that fills an important need and is very much in phase with current anthropological thinking.... This anthology will be particularly rewarding to readers interested in traditional indigenous communities and the insight gleaned from a detailed consideration of cloth and clothing. (American Anthropologist)

The essays in this book are informative and a pleasure to read. Collectively they make the reader want to journey to Mesoamerica and the Andes to view in person the cloth and clothing of the indigenous communities. (Latin American Anthropology Review)