Naga Textiles: Design, Technique, Meaning and Effect of a Local Craft Tradition in Northeast India

Wettstein, Marion (2014). Naga Textiles: Design, Technique, Meaning and Effect of a Local Craft Tradition in Northeast India. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers

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With their geometric and often minimalistic patterns, the fascinating traditional fabrics of the Nagas provide an unparalleled exception in India‘s world of textiles. In this monograph, Marion Wettstein deciphers the cultural meaning of textile design in a scholarly precise way, capturing their idiosyncratic aesthetic in colour pencil and watercolour.

Item Type:	Book (Monograph)
Division/Institute:	06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute for the Science of Religion 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute of Social Anthropology
UniBE Contributor:	Wettstein, Marion
Subjects:	200 Religion 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology 300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 390 Customs, etiquette & folklore 700 Arts > 740 Drawing & decorative arts
ISBN:	978-3-89790-419-4
Publisher:	Arnoldsche Art Publishers
Funders:	[4] Swiss National Science Foundation ; [111] Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich
Language:	English
Submitter:	Marion von Stockhausen-Wettstein
Date Deposited:	27 Jul 2017 16:20
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2022 15:03
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Naga, Nagaland, Northeas India, material culture, craft, weaving, identity, ethnography, visual anthropology, ethnographic drawing
URI:	https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/96699