Patterns In Circulation

Author : Nina Sylvanus
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022639736X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patterns in Circulation written by Nina Sylvanus and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Nina Sylvanus tells a captivating story of global trade and cross-cultural aesthetics in West Africa, showing how a group of Togolese women—through the making and circulation of wax cloth—became influential agents of taste and history. Traveling deep into the shifting terrain of textile manufacture, design, and trade, she follows wax cloth around the world and through time to unveil its critical role in colonial and postcolonial patterns of exchange and value production. Sylvanus brings wax cloth’s unique and complex history to light: born as a nineteenth-century Dutch colonial effort to copy Javanese batik cloth for Southeast Asian markets, it was reborn as a status marker that has dominated the visual economy of West African markets. Although most wax cloth is produced in China today, it continues to be central to the expression of West African women’s identity and power. As Sylvanus shows, wax cloth expresses more than this global motion of goods, capital, aesthetics, and labor—it is a form of archive where intimate and national memories are stored, always ready to be reanimated by human touch. By uncovering this crucial aspect of West African material culture, she enriches our understanding of global trade, the mutual negotiations that drive it, and the how these create different forms of agency and subjectivity.

Author : Nina Sylvanus
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226397221
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patterns in Circulation written by Nina Sylvanus and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Nina Sylvanus tells a captivating story of global trade and cross-cultural aesthetics in West Africa, showing how a group of Togolese women—through the making and circulation of wax cloth—became influential agents of taste and history. Traveling deep into the shifting terrain of textile manufacture, design, and trade, she follows wax cloth around the world and through time to unveil its critical role in colonial and postcolonial patterns of exchange and value production. Sylvanus brings wax cloth’s unique and complex history to light: born as a nineteenth-century Dutch colonial effort to copy Javanese batik cloth for Southeast Asian markets, it was reborn as a status marker that has dominated the visual economy of West African markets. Although most wax cloth is produced in China today, it continues to be central to the expression of West African women’s identity and power. As Sylvanus shows, wax cloth expresses more than this global motion of goods, capital, aesthetics, and labor—it is a form of archive where intimate and national memories are stored, always ready to be reanimated by human touch. By uncovering this crucial aspect of West African material culture, she enriches our understanding of global trade, the mutual negotiations that drive it, and the how these create different forms of agency and subjectivity.

Author : Gary M. Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Simulation of Tidal Flow and Circulation Patterns in the Loxahatchee River Estuary, Southeastern Florida written by Gary M. Russell and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lawrence H. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
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Download or read book A Review of Circulation and Mixing Studies of San Francisco Bay, California written by Lawrence H. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lawrence W. Gatto
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
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Download or read book Ice Distribution and Winter Surface Circulation Patterns, Kachemak Bay, Alaska written by Lawrence W. Gatto and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Pedlosky
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 366203204X
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ocean Circulation Theory written by Joseph Pedlosky and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the advances made in the last decade and a half in this field. Based on an advanced graduate level course, the book represents fundamental insights into the structure of the physical theory of the large-scale dynamics of the oceans. The author has maintained throughout a blend of analytical and numerical results so as to achieve as deep a physical understanding of the dynamics of the large-scale circulations as possible. The results of the theories are compared with observations and the success or inadequacies of the theories are highlighted. Topics of particular interest are: theory of the wind-driven circulation, the thermocline, the equatorial circulation and the abyssal circulation. Much of the material - previously scattered throughout the literature - has been collated here for the first time.

Author : H. Frederik Nijhout
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 0874749174
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Development and Evolution of Butterfly Wing Patterns written by H. Frederik Nijhout and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 1991-08-17 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating the results of comparative morphology, experiments on pattern development, the genetics of color patterns, and theoretical modeling of pattern formation, Nijhout shows that the enormous diversity of natural patterns arises largely from quantitative variations in a small set of readily understandable generating rules.

Author : Eric Barrett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100068301X
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Climatology from Satellites written by Eric Barrett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1974, was a pioneering study which summarized, within the pre-existing framework of atmospheric knowledge, the more significant findings that emerged from the first decade of climatological analyses of meteorological satellite data. It shows how these data complement and extend the traditional coverage of climatology. The book draws together in one volume research findings which were not previously available in book form and which significantly improve the understanding of climate, especially in regions that were conventionally data-remote.

Author : Barry A. Klinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521768438
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ocean Circulation in Three Dimensions written by Barry A. Klinger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative survey of large-scale ocean circulation that links observations, conceptual models, numerical models, and theories.

Author : H. R. Vallentine
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1489965866
Total Pages : 305 pages
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Download or read book Applied Hydrodynamics written by H. R. Vallentine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: