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Women's work : the first 20,000 years : women, cloth, and society in early times / Elizabeth Wayland Barber.
The author presents the previously untold human side of the story of prehistoric textiles, the relations of women and their textile work to society and economics over the huge span of prehistoric and early historic times.
Record details
- ISBN: 0393035069
- ISBN: 9780393035063
- ISBN: 0393313484
- ISBN: 9780393313482
- Physical Description: 334 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Norton, ©1994.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-322) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- A tradition with a reason: why textiles were traditionally women's work -- The string revolution: life in the Palaeolithic -- Courtyard sisterhood: horticultural society in the Neolithic -- Island fever: Bronze Age horticultural survivals: Minoans and others -- More than hearts on our sleeves: the functions of cloth and clothing in society -- Elements of the code: symbolism in cloth and clothing -- Cloth for the caravans: early urban manufacture in the Bronze Age Near East -- Land of linen: Middle Kingdom Egypt -- The golden spindle: outworker industries for the elite: the Mycenaeans -- Behind the myths: women's work as reflected in textile myths -- Plain or fancy, new or tried and true: Late Bronze and Iron Age urban industries -- Postscript: Finding the invisible: methods of research.
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | GN 799 .T43 B37 1994 | 2242011 | Stacks | Available | - |
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Version of Resource: http://www.gbv.de/dms/hbz/toc/ht006584944.pdf
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| 250 | . | ‡a1st ed. | |
| 260 | . | ‡aNew York : ‡bNorton, ‡c©1994. | |
| 300 | . | ‡a334 pages : ‡billustrations, maps ; ‡c25 cm | |
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