Between the Folds, Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travels from Sumba

Judul	:	Between the Folds, Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travels from Sumba
Penulis	:	Jill Forshee
Penerbit	:	University of Hawai’I Press Honolulu
Bahasa	:	Inggris
Tahun Cetak	:	2001
Halaman	:	265
ISBN	:	0-8248-2346-X
Harga	:	Rp. -
Status	:	Kosong

“This book manages to fuse together life histories, histories of contact, trade and commerce, and sensitive reading of cultural encounters between tourists and ‘natives’ in a work that while theoretically sophisticated, is also personal and engaging. It seems very well suited to undergraduate courses on art, tourism, globalization and symbolism, as well as general courses in Southeast Asian cultures.” (Janet Hoskins, University of Southern California)

Textiles have long been integral to the social life and cosmology of the people of East Sumba, Indonesia. In recent decades, Sumbanese have entered a larger world economy as their textiles have joined the commodity flow of an international “ethnic arts” market stimulated by Indonesia’s tourist trade. Through the individual stories of those involved in the contemporary production and trade of local cloth – including animists, Christians, and Moslems; Sumbanese, Indonesian Chinese, and Westerners: inventive geniuses, master artisans, and exploited weavers; rogues, entrepreneurs, nobles, and servants- a vivid account emerges of the inner workings of a so-called “traditional” society and its arts responding inventively to decades of international collecting. (Jill Forshee is a research fellow at the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies of Northern Territory University, Darwin, Australia.)