Maya Threads Maya Threads

Maya Threads

A Woven History of Chiapas

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Publisher Description

Winner of:


IBPA 2016 Benjamin Franklin Gold Award, Multicultural


Through the pages of this incredibly-researched history and photo gallery, the world of the Maya lives on through the lens of its culture and costume, still seen today in the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. In a region battered by centuries of invasions, subjugations, civil wars, and severe economic hardship, the Maya continue to celebrate and sustain their heritage in extraordinary traditional dress and festivals that are both riotous and sacred. Their ever-evolving, colorful, beautifully-handcrafted dress features exquisite gauze fabrics that trace their origins from the 9th century AD to a present-day lowland village; festival wear that blends Roman Catholicism and paganism, reverence and mockery; gloriously brocaded and embroidered wardrobes that tie communities together; and embroidery techniques that reflect displacements and migrations—in other words, fabrics that trace the history and evolution of a people. Two Maya experts and a photographer painstakingly record the remnants of influence from the Aztecs, Spanish conquistadors, Catholic missionaries, and the unseen gods and spirits that guide Maya culture today.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2015
February 15
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
182
Pages
PUBLISHER
Thrums
SELLER
Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
SIZE
68.9
MB
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