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A Woven Book of Knowledge

Name: A Woven Book of Knowledge
Brand: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS
SKU: 9780874809091
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UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESSISBN: 9780874809091

Textile Iconography of Cuzco, Peru

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By Gail Silverman
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS
Release Date: January 28, 2009
Format: PAPERBACK
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Weight: 560 g
Pages: 248

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Known for their intricate textiles, the Q'ero are a traditional Quechua-speaking Peruvian highland people. Their weavings are full of symbolic elements and motifs that encode specific cultural information and their textiles are the repositories for knowledge that has been passed down through generations. Based on ethnographic fieldwork undertaken between 1979 and 1991, A Woven Book of Knowledge examines and compares regional weaving styles and discusses the general texture of highland life. The author's long involvement with members of the Q'ero community has provided unique opportunities for insight into their ideas about weaving, iconography, and spatial and temporal concepts. But A Woven Book of Knowledge is more than an ethnographic study. If the warp of the book is the academic rigor of anthropology and linguistics, the weft is Silverman's love for the textiles themselves and for the Q'ero people. It is a result of a passion that has kept her in Cuzco for years, dedicating her career to the study of the local textile tradition.

Gail P. Silverman holds a Ph.D. from the Universite de Paris V, Sorbonne. She speaks Quechua and Spanish and is the author of six books in Spanish on the Cuzco textile tradition. She has lectured in the United States, Europe, and Bolivia and lives in Cuzco, Peru.

List of Illustrations List of Tables Foreword by Carmen Arellano Hoffman Acknowledgments 1. Q'ero: A Window on the Inca World 2. Weaving the Book 3. The Structure of Space 4. The Woven Shadow of Time 5. Para Tiempo and Osari Tiempo: Seasonal Time 6. Lista: A Color Classification for Goods 7. The Graphic Representation of the Myth of Inkarri 8. The Graphic Lexicon 9. The Book of Knowledge Woven in Q'ero Cloth Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

"Gail Silverman has become for Cuzco textiles what Veronica Cereceda is for the study of the textiles of Jalca and Tarabuco, Bolivia, and Isluga, Chile: a lifetime of dedication."--Carmen Arellano Hoffman

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