Diana Marks
Biographic Data
| ID | 3820077 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana Marks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana |
| FAMILY NAME | Marks |
| SIGNATURE | MARKS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Independent Scholar, Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4265-0047 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Study of Non-Western Dress History: The Cultural Authentication of the Dress of the Guna Women of Panama
The Guna (Kuna) Indians, an indigenous people living in Panama and Colombia, are well known because of the mola blouses worn by Guna women. The mola is part of their dress ensemble that evolved over the second half of the nineteenth century. The history of this ensemble could be explained by a process of cultural authentication, a concept developed by Eicher and Erekosima in the 1980s and previously applied to the mola blouse. This paper proposes…
Parallelism and meaning: Understanding molas as twinned pairs
For over 100 years, Kuna Indian women and girls have sewn and worn the mola blouse as part of their dress ensemble. On the front and back of the blouses are mola panels, conceived and created as a pair. The pair of mola panels may be nearly identical or different. The relationship between a pair of mola panels is discussed in terms of the impact on the designs of Kuna culture and ethnoaesthetic criteria, especially layering, filler techniques, sy…
Molas: Displaying the quotidian before Andy Warhol
Mola blouses have become identified with both the Kuna Indians and the nation of Panama. The iconography on mola blouses has included images from North American and Latin American popular culture since the early twentieth century. This article explores the selection and display of images of consumer and popular culture by Kuna women with the later depiction of similar quotidian images in the early work of Andy Warhol.
From Part to Whole: Developing an Appreciation of Kuna Molas as Collectibles
In the Kuna language the word mola is polysemous, with meanings which include cloth, a rectangular panel of appliquéd cloth and a complete blouse. A pair of mola panels joined together with a yoke and sleeves form a mola blouse, thus the word mola means both part and whole of an item of clothing. Sewn and worn by Kuna women and girls, molas have become identified with Panama and mola panels have become the quintessential tourist souvenir. Paralle…
Parallelism and meaning: Understanding molas as twinned pairs
For over 100 years, Kuna Indian women and girls have sewn and worn the mola blouse as part of their dress ensemble. On the front and back of the blouses are mola panels, conceived and created as a pair. The pair of mola panels may be nearly identical or different. The relationship between a pair of mola panels is discussed in terms of the impact on the designs of Kuna culture and ethnoaesthetic criteria, especially layering, filler techniques, sy…
Molas: Displaying the quotidian before Andy Warhol
Mola blouses have become identified with both the Kuna Indians and the nation of Panama. The iconography on mola blouses has included images from North American and Latin American popular culture since the early twentieth century. This article explores the selection and display of images of consumer and popular culture by Kuna women with the later depiction of similar quotidian images in the early work of Andy Warhol.
From Part to Whole: Developing an Appreciation of Kuna Molas as Collectibles
In the Kuna language the word mola is polysemous, with meanings which include cloth, a rectangular panel of appliquéd cloth and a complete blouse. A pair of mola panels joined together with a yoke and sleeves form a mola blouse, thus the word mola means both part and whole of an item of clothing. Sewn and worn by Kuna women and girls, molas have become identified with Panama and mola panels have become the quintessential tourist souvenir. Paralle…
Parallelism and meaning: Understanding molas as twinned pairs
For over 100 years, Kuna Indian women and girls have sewn and worn the mola blouse as part of their dress ensemble. On the front and back of the blouses are mola panels, conceived and created as a pair. The pair of mola panels may be nearly identical or different. The relationship between a pair of mola panels is discussed in terms of the impact on the designs of Kuna culture and ethnoaesthetic criteria, especially layering, filler techniques, sy…
A Study of Non-Western Dress History: The Cultural Authentication of the Dress of the Guna Women of Panama
The Guna (Kuna) Indians, an indigenous people living in Panama and Colombia, are well known because of the mola blouses worn by Guna women. The mola is part of their dress ensemble that evolved over the second half of the nineteenth century. The history of this ensemble could be explained by a process of cultural authentication, a concept developed by Eicher and Erekosima in the 1980s and previously applied to the mola blouse. This paper proposes…
Fashion and Cultural Textiles (4 works) · History (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · Meaning (existential (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)