Tivaivai : The Social Fabric of the Cook Islands

Elaborate and beautiful patchwork quilts known as tivaivai have been produced by Cook Islanders since the introduction of woven cloth to the Pacific in the early nineteenth century. In this book, Küchler and Eimke show that these labour-intensive and precious items bind islanders together in social and economic relationships, and that they have become central to the creation of an indigenous modernity in a time of wide-spread migration. Tivaivai are "social fabrics"... >Voir plus