The Material Culture of Basketry: Practice, Skill and Embodied Knowledge

Stephanie Bunn

ISBN 10: 1350359904 / ISBN 13: 9781350359901

Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2023

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Presents the discipline of basketry as a culturally significant practice, a mode of sustainable craft and design, and a socially beneficial source of skill and care.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Stephanie Bunn is Leverhulme Emeritus Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK. She curated the first ever British Museum exhibition of Central Asian felt textiles, and is author of Nomadic Felt (2010), editor of Anthropology and Beauty (2016) and co-editor of The Material Culture of Basketry (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Victoria Mitchell is Research Fellow at Norwich University of the Arts, UK, where she was previously Senior Lecturer in Contextual Studies and Course Leader for MA Textile Culture. She works with the theory, practice and history of textiles and basketry, with a particular interest in relationships between materials, making, metaphor and meaning.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Material Culture of Basketry: Practice, ...
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Einband: Paperback / softback
Zustand: New