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Sinews of Survival: The Living Legacy of Inuit Clothing
Betty Kobayashi Issenman
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Description for Sinews of Survival: The Living Legacy of Inuit Clothing
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages, 16 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL9; WJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 5817 x 18. Weight in Grams: 680.
Betty Issenman examines all aspects of winter and summer Inuit clothing, going back 4000 years, with particular emphasis on northern Canadian Inuit. She also describes the kinds of material and tools used to make the clothing. The focus is on on Inuit clothing as protection, identity, and culture bearer, roles it has played for thousands of years. No other book brings together contemporary and historical material from the circumpolar worlds with original research. Sinews of Survival is a fascinating study of Inuit clothing, past and present. It includes over 200 illustrations of various kinds of clothing. The ... Read more
Betty Issenman examines all aspects of winter and summer Inuit clothing, going back 4000 years, with particular emphasis on northern Canadian Inuit. She also describes the kinds of material and tools used to make the clothing. The focus is on on Inuit clothing as protection, identity, and culture bearer, roles it has played for thousands of years. No other book brings together contemporary and historical material from the circumpolar worlds with original research. Sinews of Survival is a fascinating study of Inuit clothing, past and present. It includes over 200 illustrations of various kinds of clothing. The ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Weight
680g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774805995
SKU
V9780774805995
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About Betty Kobayashi Issenman
Betty Kobayashi Issenman is a well-known specialist in Inuit clothing, a subject on which she has written and lectured extensively. From 1978 to 1988 she researched and catalogued the Artic clothing collections at the McCord Museum in Montreal, Quebec, and in 1988-1989 she was the guest curator at the museum of an exhibition of Inuit clothing called Ivalu: Traditions ... Read more
Reviews for Sinews of Survival: The Living Legacy of Inuit Clothing
... generous and comprehensive work ... a breathtaking gallop athrough the world of aboriginal fur fashion ... a serious academic treatment of a complex and difficult subject, but it's easy to forget the footnotes, indexes and glosses, and lose oneself in the hundreds of illustrations ... a great deal here to interest lovers of art and fashion ... The next ... Read more