In the early 1950’s, my husband and I used to go to the Paris flea market….†This is how Monique Levi-Strauss – wife of the most famous living anthropologist, Claude Levi-Strauss – begins the extraordinary account of a discovery: an adventure which began thirty years ago when cashmere shawls cost very little and did not arouse the passions that they had among the ladies of the 19th century. The first European to visit Kashmir in 1964 wrote of his ...
