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Textile Ascendancies - Aesthetics, Production, and Trade in Northern Nigeria (Hardcover)
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Textile Ascendancies - Aesthetics, Production, and Trade in Northern Nigeria (Hardcover)
Series: African Perspectives
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Until this century, Northern Nigeria was a major center of textile
production and trade. Textile Ascendancies: Aesthetics, Production,
and Trade in Northern Nigeria examines this dramatic change in
textile aesthetics, technologies, and social values in order to
explain the extraordinary shift in textile demand, production, and
trade. Textile Ascendancies provides information for the study of
the demise of textile manufacturing outside Nigeria. The book also
suggests the conundrum considered by George Orwell concerning the
benefits and disadvantages of “mechanical progress,” and
digital progress, for human existence. While textile mill workers
in northern Nigeria were proud to participate in the mechanization
of weaving, the “tendency for the mechanization of the world”
represented by more efficient looms and printing equipment in China
has contributed to the closing of Nigerian mills and unemployment.
Textile Ascendancies will appeal to anthropologists for its
analyses of social identity as well as how the ethnic identity of
consumers influences continued handwoven textile production. The
consideration of aesthetics and fashionable dress will appeal to
specialists in textiles and clothing. It will be useful to economic
historians for the comparative analysis of textile manufacturing
decline in the 21st century. It will also be of interest to those
thinking about global futures, about digitalization, and how new
ways of making cloth and clothing may provide both employment and
environmentally sound production practices.
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