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Item Number: 127835
Title: Carrying Coca
Author: Sharratt, Nicola
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780300200720
Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, for the Bard Graduate Center, 2014. 22cm., pbk., 128pp., 70 color illus. Exhibition catalogue. Summary : Textile production and consumption has played a central role in the economy of the Andes region of South America since the Inca Empire (a.d. 1400–1532). This book traces 1500 years of textile arts in the Andes, with a focus on chuspas, small bags originally designed to hold coca leaves; colorful and functional, chuspas are both aesthetically pleasing and technically sophisticated pieces of art. In an area noted for extreme weather, textiles produced from the wool of llamas, vicuñas, alpacas, and other indigenous animals were essential in protecting people from the cold and wind at high altitudes in the Andes. Often stunningly beautiful, these textiles were also demanded as tribute by the state, and offered as valuable gifts. Beyond their functional and aesthetic value, textiles have long played important ritual and social roles in Andean communities. Fully illustrated, this book offers an important introduction to the rich history and key roles of these textiles. (^Available May 2014^)
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