Description |
1 online resource (xix, 226 pages) : illustrations, map |
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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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 |
Summary |
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 fish from the lake, host the forty thousand tourists who visit their island each year. Yet only twenty-five years ago, few tourists had even heard of Taquile. In Weaving a Future: Tourism, Cloth, and Culture on an Andean Island, Elayne Zorn documents the remarkable transformation of the isolated rock |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-214) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Quechua textile fabrics -- Peru -- Taquili
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Quechua business enterprises -- Peru -- Taquili
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Quechua Indians -- Clothing -- Peru -- Taquili
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Hand weaving -- Peru -- Taquili
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Textile design -- Peru -- Taquili
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HISTORY.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Economic history
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Hand weaving
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Manners and customs
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Quechua business enterprises
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Quechua Indians -- Clothing
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Quechua textile fabrics
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Textile design
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Quechua
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Textilhandwerk
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Tourismus
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SUBJECT |
Taquili (Peru) -- Social life and customs
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Taquili (Peru) -- Economic conditions
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Subject |
Peru -- Taquili
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Taquile
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Quechua.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2004051651 |
ISBN |
9781587295225 |
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1587295229 |
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9781609380342 |
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1609380347 |
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0877459150 |
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9780877459156 |
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