Weaving New Worlds: Southeastern Cherokee Women and Their Basketry - Couverture souple

Hill, Sarah H.

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ISBN 10 : 0807846503 ISBN 13 : 9780807846506

Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 1997

Synopsis

In this innovative study, Sarah Hill illuminates the history of Southeastern Cherokee women by examining changes in their basketry. Based in tradition and made from locally gathered materials, baskets evoke the lives and landscapes of their makers. Indeed, as Weaving New Worlds reveals, the stories of Cherokee baskets and the women who weave them are intertwined and inseparable. Incorporating written, woven, and spoken records, Hill demonstrates that changes in Cherokee basketry signal important transformations in Cherokee culture. Over the course of three centuries, Cherokees developed four major basketry traditions, each based on a different material--rivercane, white oak, honeysuckle, and maple. Hill explores how the addition of each new material occurred in the context of lived experience, ecological processes, social conditions, economic circumstances, and historical eras. Incorporating insights from written sources, interviews with contemporary Cherokee weavers, and a close examination of the baskets themselves, she presents Cherokee women as shapers and subjects of change. Even in the face of cultural assault and environmental loss, she argues, Cherokee women have continued to take what they have to make what they need, literally and metaphorically weaving new worlds from old.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sarah H. Hill is an independent scholar who lives in Atlanta. A native of Georgia, she received her Ph.D. in American studies from Emory University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University of North Carolina Press
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807846503
• ISBN 13: 9780807846506
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 440
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