Author : Elayne Zorn
Release : 2004
Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 229/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Weaving a Future by : Elayne Zorn
Download or read book Weaving a Future written by Elayne Zorn. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the Americas, are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking peasant farmers, who depend on potatoes and the fish from the lake, host the forty thousand tourists who visit their island each year. Yet only twenty-five years ago, few tourists had even heard of Taquile. In Weaving a Future: Tourism, Cloth, and Culture on an Andean Island, Elayne Zorn documents the remarkable transformation of the isolated rock.