“Making it for our country”: an ethnography of mud-dyeing on Amami Ōshima Island
Based on one year of fieldwork on Amami Ōshima island, southern Japan, this paper explores how traditional craft industries navigate the paradox between preservation and innovation. By focusing on dorozome (mud-dyeing), a process used in the production of the Amamian kimono cloth Oshima tsumugi, I l...
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Taylor and Francis
2019
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