Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Auteur de Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years : Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus Historical Dance Troupe, which she founded in 1971. afficher moins
Crédit image: Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Œuvres de Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years : Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times (1994) 1,157 exemplaires
The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance (2013) 69 exemplaires
Tales of modern days 1 exemplaire
Prehistoric Textiles 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Reconfiguring the Silk Road: New Research on East-West Exchange in Antiquity (2014) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Varia on the Indo-European Past: Papers in Memory of Marija Gimbutas (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph Series… (1997) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Greater Anatolia and the Indo-Hittite language family : papers presented at a colloquium hosted by the University of… (2001) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Barber, E. J. W.
- Date de naissance
- 1940-12-02
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Études
- Yale University (PhD|Linguistics|1968)
Bryn Mawr College (BA|Archaeology|1963) - Professions
- linguist
scholar of textiles
choreographer
archaeologist
college professor - Organisations
- Occidental College
American Costume Society - Prix et distinctions
- 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 - Courte biographie
- 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.
Membres
Discussions
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years : Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times à One Book One Thread (Février 2020)
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
Vous aimerez peut-être aussi
Auteurs associés
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 12
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 2,234
- Popularité
- #11,485
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 46
- ISBN
- 25
- Langues
- 1
- Favoris
- 9
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.… (plus d'informations)