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Anawalt, Patricia Rieff was born on March 10, 1924 in Ripon, California, United States. Daughter of Edmund Lee and Anita Esto (Capps) Rieff.
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The definitive costume book: a glorious celebration of ethnographic clothing that brilliantly traces influences from culture to culture around the globe. From Neolithic plant-fiber skirts, Ancient Egyptian linen shifts, and Classical togas through Mongolian shamanic robes, Japanese kimonos, and Indian saris to nineteenth-century Tyrolean dirndls, contemporary African ceremonial attire, and today's Middle Eastern burqas, every notable geographical region, historical period, and style of dress is covered here. All aspects of dress and accessories are discussed: basic men's and women's clothing, footwear, outerwear, hairstyles, headgear, jewelry, armor, special costumes, garment decoration, and face and body modification. More than one thousand illustrations include both vintage and modern-day photographs of local people in local clothing; color plates of museum-quality artifacts on display or posed on mannequins; historical paintings, miniatures, woodblock prints, and other artworks showing traditional clothing; line drawings illustrating traditional motifs and designs; and more than fifty specially commissioned maps. As well as discovering remarkable examples of actual garments and accessories, Patricia R. Anawalt has unearthed stunning representations of authentic worldwide dress in the form of statues, figurines, busts, stone plaques, monumental carvings, friezes, murals, mosaics, and pottery. Historical backgrounds on each region include descriptions of population, geography, and climate, allowing the reader to understand fully the development of an area's clothing customs. 1,100 illustrations and photographs, 800 in color
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Now available in Arabic. Here is the definitive costume book, embodying a wealth of research that is unlikely ever to be superseded. From the plant-fibre skirts of the Neolithic, Ancient Egyptian linen shifts and togas of the Classical Age, to 19th-century Tyrolean dirndls, contemporary African ceremonial attire and the Middle Eastern burqas of our own age, every notable geographical region, historical period and style of dress is covered. Complete with an extensive reference section, this book is a glorious celebration of ethnographic clothing and is destined to become the standard reference work.
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At last, this paperback adaptation of The Codex Mendoza places the most comprehensive, most extensively illustrated document of Aztec civilization within reach of a broad audience. Compiled in Mexico City around 1541 under the supervision of Spanish clerics, the codex was intended to inform King Charles V about his newly conquered subjects. The manuscript contains pictorial accounts of Aztec emperors' conquests and tribute paid by the conquered, as well as an ethnographic record of Aztec daily life from cradle to grave. This publication is an unsurpassed source of information about Aztec history, geography, economy, social and political organization, glyphic writing, costumes, textiles, military attire, and indigenous art styles. The Essential Codex Mendoza combines volumes 2 and 4 of the four-volume edition of The Codex Mendoza published by the University of California Press in 1992. That publication includes a collection of interpretations and appendices (volume 1), page-by-page descriptions of the codex (volume 3), a color facsimile of Codex Mendoza (volume 2), and parallel-image replicas of each pictorial folio with transcriptions and translations of the Spanish commentaries and translations of the Spanish glosses (volume 4). Volumes 2 and 4 thus provide, in detail, the basic pictorial and descriptive information contained in the original codex; these are the "essentials" that make up the paperback edition. With the exception of a few minor emendations, this current book reproduces the pages of these two 1992 volumes, plus sixteen color folios from the facsimile, volume 3.
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Anawalt, Patricia Rieff was born on March 10, 1924 in Ripon, California, United States. Daughter of Edmund Lee and Anita Esto (Capps) Rieff.
Bachelor in Anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1957. Master of Arts in Anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1971. Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, University of California at Los Angeles, 1975.
Consultant curator costumes and textiles Museum Cultural History, University of California at Los Angeles, 1975-1990;
director Center for Study Regional Dress, Fowler Museum Cultural History, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1990;
trustee, S.W. Museum, Los Angeles, 1978-1992;
research associate, The San Diego Museum Man, since 1980;
research associate, University of California at Los Angeles Institute Archaeology, since 1994. Trustee Archaeol. Institute American, United States, Canada, 1983-1995, 98-. Traveling lecturer, 1975-1986, 94-96, President's Lectureship, 1993-1994, Charles E. Norton lectureship, 1996-1997.
Consultant National Geography Society, 1980-1982, Denver Museum Natural History, 1992-1993. Appointed by United States President to Cultural Property Advisory Committee, Washington, 1984-1993. Fieldwork Guatemala, 1961, 70, 72, Spain, 1975, Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico, 1983, 85, 88, 89, 91.
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(Now available in Arabic. Here is the definitive costume b...)
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Advisory com Textile Museum, Washington, 1983-1987. Fellow American Anthropological Association. Member Centre International D'Etude Des Textiles Anciens, American Ethnological Society, Society of America Archaeology, Society Women Geographers (Outstanding Achievement award 1993), Textile Society of America (board directors 1992-1996, co-coordinator 1994 biennial symposium), Society Antiquaries, London.
Married Richard Lee Anawalt, June 8, 1945. Children: David, Katherine Anawalt Arnoldi, Harmon Fred.