University of Texas Press, Date: 2011. Hard cover. Very good/Good. Jacket is worn, especially along edges. Jacket edges are tanned, but legibility is not affected. Back of jacket has previous seller's price sticker. Spine is shaken but secure. Cover edges are worn. Inside is clean and unmarked. 2011. University of Texas Press ISBN 0292725914 9780292725911 [US]

New. The traditional costumes worn by people in the Andes-women's woolen skirts, men's ponchos, woven belts, and white felt hats-instantly identify them as natives of the region and serve as revealing markers of ethnicity, social class, gender, age, and so on. Because costume expresses so much, scholars study it to learn how the indigenous people of the Andes have identified themselves over time, as well as how others have identified and influenced them. Costume and History in Highland Ecuador assembles for the first time for any Andean country the evidence for indigenous costume from the entire chronological range of prehistory and history. The contributors glean a remarkable amount of information from pre-Hispanic ceramics and textile tools, archaeological textiles from the Inca empire in Peru, written accounts from the colonial period, nineteenth-century European-style pictorial representations, and twentieth-century textiles in museum collections. Their findings reveal that several garments introduced by the Incas, including men's tunics and women's wrapped dresses, shawls, and belts, had a remarkable longevity. They also demonstrate that the hybrid poncho from Chile and the rebozo from Mexico diffused in South America during the colonial period, and that the development of the rebozo in particular was more interesting and complex than has previously been suggested. The adoption of Spanish garments such as the pollera (skirt) and man's shirt were ...

Univ of Texas Pr, Date: 2011. Hardcover. New. 402 pages. 9.25x6.50x1.25 inches. 2011. Univ of Texas Pr ISBN 0292725914 9780292725911 [GB]