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Contents Forewords Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapurukha M. Kusimba Chapter 2: The Linton Expedition to Madagascar, 1926/1927; Liliana Mosca Chapter 3: Market Day in Madagascar; Ralph Linton Chapter 4: The W. T. Rawleigh Collection of Malagasy Portraits, 1910/1930; Chantal Radimilahy Chapter 5: Betsileo Textiles: Negotiating Identity between the Living and Dead; Rebecca L. Green Chapter 6: Textile Traditions of Southwestern Madagascar; Sarah Fee Chapter 7: Beyond the Lamba: Costume in Southeast Madagascar; Wendy Walker, Sarah Fee, and Edgar Krebs Chapter 8: Saklava Textiles in the Field Museum Collection; Judy Odland Chapter 9: Aspects of Hand-Loom Weaving in the Highlands of Madagascar; Simon Peers Chapter 10: Wrapping Up Malagasy Textiles; Bennet Bronson Appendix A: The Lamba Song; Michel Razafiarivony Appendix B: Lamba and Proverbs; Chantal Radimilahy Appendix C: The Silkmoths of Madagascar; Richard Peigler Endnotes References Cited Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Material culture -- Madagascar.
Textile fabrics -- Madagascar.
Clothing and dress -- Symbolic aspects -- Madagascar.
Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953 -- Travel -- Madagascar.
Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953 -- Ethnological collections.
Ethnological expeditions -- Madagascar.
Madagascar -- Antiquities -- Collectors and collecting.
Madagascar -- Social life and customs.