A Cloth that Promises Resurrection
New considerations on sacred cloths and archaic looms in Eastern Indonesia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18982011 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Geneviève Duggan (0000-0002-4676-3148, Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 148 |
| Pages | 313-341 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Indonesia and the Malay World (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-9811 • E-ISSN: 1469-8382 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13639811.2022.2129187 |
| OpenAlex | W4308205806 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
The article considers small sacred cloths produced in Eastern Indonesia, an area known in the textiles literature as ‘east of the Wallace line’ as handwoven cloths produced in the region share essential characteristics. They are woven on back tension looms and show similarities in the weaving technique, composition and decoration methods. The first part of the article describes and analyses three weaving ceremonies on the island of Savu where a cloth locally considered as the most ancient and the most sacred textile is woven under certain conditions, raising the question of the type of loom on which it might have been originally woven. The second part is on the origin of the back tension loom used today in eastern Indonesia. Using linguistics and referring to advanced genetic methods as well as recent findings in navigation skills of ancient Austronesian people, I suggest a re-examination of the origin of the loom east of the Wallace line
Ancient history · Archaeology · LOOM · Textile · Weaving · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Engineering · History · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Mechanical Engineering
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Outline of a Theory of Practice
Memory in Mind and Culture
Commensality and Food Prohibition
The Fish and the Loom
Une note au sujet de tissages à chaîne continue dans l’Est de l’Insulinde
Savu
Comparative Austronesian dictionary
To Speak with Cloth
Kewatek, the Ikat Textiles from Adonara
An ongoing Austronesian expansion in Island Southeast Asia
Types of Social Structure in Eastern Indonesia
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |