From Craft to Industry - The Ethnography of Proto-Industrial Cloth Production

Klappentext The essays in this volume focus on two themes: the centrality of the production of and trade in cloth in the emergence of market activity; and the nature of the industrialization process. Zusammenfassung The essays in this volume focus on two themes: the centrality of the production of and trade in cloth in the emergence of market activity; and the nature of the industrialization process. The core of the book is formed by four detailed ethnographic studies of the development and current organization of cloth production for the market! in different parts of the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Esther N. Goody; 2. On commoditization Keith Hart; 3. Daboya weavers: relations of production, dependence and reciprocity Esther N. Goody; 4. The tailors of Kano City R. J. Pokrant; 5. Production and control in the Indian garment export industry D. A. Swallow; 6. Harris Tweed: construction, retention and representation of a cottage industry Judith Ennew.

Product details

• Authors: Esther N. Goody
• Assisted by: Esther N. Goody (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521104982
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10498-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Cambridge Papers in Social Ant
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology