Weaving a future : tourism, cloth & culture on an Andean island / Elayne Zorn.

The people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the Americas, are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking peasant farmers, who depend on potatoes and the fi...

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Main Author: Zorn, Elayne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2004.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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