Book
Kuna crafts, gender, and the global economy
University of Austin Press • Austin • Published In 1995 • Pages:
By: Tice, Karin E. (Karin Elaine).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document discusses the commercialization of Kuna women's clothing for sale in the global market. MOLA blouses, worn by the Kuna women of San Blas, Panama, have been commercialized since the 1960s and in the 1980s provided a primary source of income for the entire San Blas region. The author explores the effects on the division of labor by gender, social differentiation, and the commoditization of ethnicity of the shift from MOLA production designed for use to that of production for exchange (pp. 2-3).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Normal garb
- Clothing manufacture
- Buying and selling
- External trade
- Division of labor by gender
- Cooperative organization
- Household
- Gender roles and issues
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kuna
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central America
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 1997
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1981-1984
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 960s-1980s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- San Blas Coast and Islands, Panama
- NotesAdditional notes
- Karin E. Tice
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94016152
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cuna Indians