An Ethnography and Archaeology of Andean Camelid Herding
by
Penny Dransart
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Through a richly detailed examination of the practices of spinning yarn from the fleece of llamas and alpacas, Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric explores the relationship that herders of the present and of the past have maintained with their herd animals in the Andes. Dransart juxtaposes an ethnography...