Spirits in the Loom: Religion and Design in Lao-Tai Textiles

Studies in the Material Cultures of Southeast Asia

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ellison Banks Findly

Ellison Banks Findly is Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Trinity College.  She was trained at Wellesley, Columbia, and Yale and, at Trinity, teaches courses on Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Asian art, and Sanskrit.  She has published widely in Vedic, Indian Buddhist, and Mughal studis, and is the author of From the Courts of India: Indian Miniatures From the Worcester Art Museum (1981), Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India (1611-1627) (Oxford, 1993) and Dana: Giving and Getting in Pali Buddhism (Motilal Banarsidass, 2003), and is co-editor of Women, Religion, and Social Change (State University of New York Press, 1985) and editor of Women's Buddhism, Buddhism's Women (Wisdom, 2000).  She is currently working on The Language of Lao-Tai Design: Religion and Textiles of the Houa Phan area, Laos.

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Title
Spirits in the Loom: Religion and Design in Lao-Tai Textiles
Studies in the Material Cultures of Southeast Asia
Author
Edition
1st. ed.
Publisher
ISBN
9789748434773
Length
xxiv+264p., Illustrations; Colour; 30cm.
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