Weaving Generations Together Evolving Creativity among the Mayas of Chiapas

Name: Weaving Generations Together Evolving Creativity among the Mayas of Chiapas
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ISBN: 9781930618282

ISBN-10: 193061828X

ISBN-13: 9781930618282

Edition: 2004

Authors: Patricia Marks Greenfield

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This innovative study provides a rare longitudinal study of the cognitive and socialization processes involved in transmitting weaving knowledge across two generations of Zinacantec Maya women in Chiapas. Greenfield's return to the site of her initial fieldwork twenty years later enables her to examine the impact of commercialization and globalization on textile production and sales, acculturation, and female socialization. Her systematic collection of data and range of approaches make this an exemplary work that will be a major contribution to studies of cognition and socialization, the life cycles of material culture, and the anthropology of the Maya. The more than two hundred striking…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press/SAR Press
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 10.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.530
Language: English

Changes in the fabric of life	p. 1
Foundations of cultural continuity	p. 29
Apprenticeship transformed	p. 69
Relaxing the textile rules	p. 89
Inside the mind	p. 123
The creative process	p. 149
Coda : cross-cultural perspectives	p. 169
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