AuthorCohen, Erik
TitleThe commercialized crafts of Thailand : hill tribes and lowland villages, collected articles / Erik Cohen
Imprint Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2000
Descript xiii, 316 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

CONTENT

Hill Tribe Crafts: International Politics and the Transformation of Folk Crafts: The Hmong of Thailand and Laos ; Dynamics of Hmong and Mien Commercialized Arts ; From Tribal Costume to Pop Fashion: The "Boutiquisation' of the Textiles of the Hill Tribes of Northern Thailand ; Hmong Cross: A Cosmic Symbol in Hmong Textile Designs ; Hmong Commercialized Refugee Art: From Ornament to Picture ; Temporal Ambiguity in Hmong Representational Textile Art -- Lowland Village Crafts: Touristic Craft Ribbon Development in Thailand; Dan Kwien Pottery: The Heterogeneization of a Tourist Art ; From Buddha Images to Mickey Mouse Figures: the Transformation of Ban Thawai Carvings ; Rehabilitative Commercialization: The Revival of Ban Namon Weaving ; Decline of Basketware in a Northern Thai Craft Village


SUBJECT

  1. Handicraft -- Thailand
  2. Handicraft industries -- Thailand

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