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1996 Proceedings:
Sacred and Ceremonial Textiles

Fifth Biennial Symposium, September 19-21, 1996.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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Sacred Textile Banners of Japan

  • Sacred Textile Banners of Japan. -Monica Bethe
  • Braids on Early Japanese Banners. -Masako Kinoshita
  • From Secular Garment to Sacred Object: Kosode Refashioned into Buddhist Altar Cloths and Banners. -Nobuhiko Maruyama
  • Offertory Banners from Rural Japan: Echigo-Chijimi Weaving and Worship. - Sharon Sadako Takeda
Individual papers:

  • The Tenjukoku Shucho and the Asuka Period Funerary Practices. - Maria del Rosario Pradel
  • The Reproduction and Ceremonial Offering of Sacred Textiles and Apparel in Ise Jingu's Shikinen Sengu (abstract). - Rosemarie Bernard

The Sacred Drapo of Haitian Vodou: Antecedent, Tradition and Metamorphoses

  • Haitian Drapo Vodou: Imagery, Ritual and Perception. - Susan Elizabeth Tselos
  • Some Breton and Muslim Antecedents of Voudou Drapo. - LeGrace Benson
  • For the Flower of Ginen: The Artistry of Clotaire Bazile, a Haitian Vodou Flagmaker. - Anna Wexler

Individual papers:

  • Laundry as Ritual. - Margo Mensing
  • Ceremonial Textiles of the Mardi Gras Indians. - Ann M. DuPont
  • Video: Between Light and Shadow. (abstract) - Kathryn Lypke Vigesaa
  • The Ampato Textile Offerings. - William J Conklin
  • The Great Cloth Burial at Cahuachi, Nasca Valley, Peru. - Elena Phipps
  • Syncretic Cloth, Virgins and Colonization in the Peruvian Andes. - Karen Michelsen
  • Textiles of Sacrifice: Aztec Ritual Capes. - Patricia Rieff Anawalt
  • Manifest Insignificance - The Consecrated Veil of Medieval Religious Women. - Désirée Koslin
  • Traditional Textiles in Transylvanian and Danubian Mourning Rituals. - Joyce Corbett
  • Beauty Enhances Ritual. - Jennifer Wearden
Ritual Cloth as Emblem of Socio-Religious Values in Indonesia.

  • Heirloom and Hierarchy - The Sacred Lawo Butu Cloth of the Lio of Central Flores. - Willemijn de Jong
  • Heirloom and Male Ancestors - The Flowered Kain Kembangan of Kerek, East Java. - Rens Heringa
  • Heirloom Cloth and Social Organization - The Ceremonial Kain Sandang Gobo of the Minangkabau, West Sumatra. - Linda Hanssen

Individual papers and video:

  • Maori Weaving: The Intertwining of Spirit, Action and Metaphor. - Suzanne MacAulay and Kura Te Waru-Rewiri
  • Video: Entrance Gates Commission - Maui Arts and Cultural Center. (introduction to the video) - Pat Hickman
  • Video: The Traditional Method of Masi Making on the Island of Taveuni, Fiji. (abstract) - Daniel Roy Hildenbrandt
  • Video: Threads of Time - Handmade Textiles for Weddings in Fez, Morocco. (introduction to the video) - Louise W. Mackie

Sacred and Ceremonial Textiles and the Constitution of Value in Africa

  • The Meaning of Yoruba Aso Olona is Far from Water Tight. - Lisa Aronson
  • Mourning and Memory: Factory-Printed Textiles and the Baule of Cote d'Ivoire. - Kathleen E. Bickford
  • White Robes for Worship: The Umnazaretha of the Nazareth Baptist Church in South Africa. - Karen H. Brown
  • Divine Worth: Weaving and the Ancestors in Highland Madagascar. - Rebecca L. Green

Individual papers:

  • Cloth and the Corpse in Ebira. - John Picton
  • Sacred Textiles from an Ancient Nubian Temple. - Nettie K. Adams
  • Video: Contemporary Fashions of Traditional Textiles and Clothing in the Gambia. (abstract) -June Pearson Bland
  • Four Eighteenth-Century Monumental Ethiopian Tablet-Woven Silk Curtains. - Michael Gervers
  • Naming and Meaning: Ritual Textiles of the Iban of Sarawak. - Traude Gavin
  • (Re)Situating Ceremonial Textiles in Ifugao, Upland Philippines. - B. Lynne Milgram

 

     
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