UNDERSTANDING AND FINDING THE MULTI-UTILIZATION OF THE TEXTILE AT THE FIELD; CASE STUDY OF THE WHITE CLOTH IN ETHIOPIA, EASTERN ETHIOPIA
There are various ethnic group and society all over the world,and various clothes are used among them today.In Africa also there are a lot of traditional clothes of various ethnic group.These clothes has been researched and studied by anthropologists and sociologists by various viewpoints such as Adinkra cloth among Asante in Ghana and raffia cloth among Kuba in Congo.These clothes are introduced by a museum or a book as African cloth,however there is a cloth which is not yet researched and studied enough because there is not a surface characteristic.Amhara people who living in northern Ethiopia produce and wear the hand-woven textile which is pure white,thin,and transparent today.Because their cloth had been evaluated as simple white cloth,enough researches and studies have not been done.However,it can possible to understand variety of their knowledge for their cloth when live with them.For example,they change a wearing method by a purpose of use with same cloth.When they go to the funeral,they fix the pattern of the edge of cloth to come for the upper side and fix a pattern below side when they go to the church.Moreover,in Bahir Dar,the capital of Amhara,weavers who weave their textile are both full-time and migrant,the latter coming from the countryside during the slack farming season.And,many prisoners weave the textile,in conformance with the division of labor system to receive an income during the terms of their sentences.Therefore,textile weaving in this area is not limited to skilled craftsmen (full-time weavers); even the unskilled such as prisoners and migrants have the opportunity to weave.I report the multi-utilization of cloth understanding and finding from the field with Ethiopian cloth as an example in this paper.
Multi-utilization Amhara Ethiopian cloth Sociability of textile Ethnography of textile
ITAGAKI Jumpei
Nagoya City University, School of Design and Architecture
国际会议
The 9th International Shibori Symposium(第九届国际绞缬染织研讨会)
杭州
英文
76-84
2014-10-31（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）