Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Autor de Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years : Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
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Elizabeth Wayland Barber is the author of six books, including Women's Work The First 20,000 Years and The Mummies of rmchi. A professor emerita at Occidental College and a research associate at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, she also teaches and choreographs for Occidental's Folk and mostrar más Historical Dance Troupe, which she founded in 1971. mostrar menos
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Obras de Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Tales of modern days 1 copia
Prehistoric Textiles 1 copia
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- Otros nombres
- Barber, E. J. W.
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1940-12-02
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Educación
- Yale University (PhD|Linguistics|1968)
Bryn Mawr College (BA|Archaeology|1963) - Ocupaciones
- linguist
scholar of textiles
choreographer
archaeologist
college professor - Organizaciones
- Occidental College
American Costume Society - Premios y honores
- Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada
Millia Davenport Publication Award (2000)
Mary Lowther Ranney Distinguished Alumna Award, Westridge, School
Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award - Biografía breve
- Elizabeth is professor emerita at Occidental College and author of several books, including the award-winning, Women’s Work: The First 20,00 Years, named one of the “100 Best Science Books of the Century” by Sigma Xi and her most recent, When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth. She is the pre-eminent authority on prehistoric textiles and acclaimed in the fields of linguistics and archeology. “Betchen,” as she is known, received her Bachelor’s Degree in Archeology and Greek from Bryn Mawr College and her doctorate in Linguistics from Yale University.
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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years : Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times en One Book One Thread (Febrero 2020)
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- 4.2
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This was less about sewing, embroidery, etc, and more about spinning and weaving, with regular side trips in the materials used and how to prepare them to create thread and rope.
A book to keep in mind when discussing, or looking into, how women fit into society. I highly recommend it.… (más)