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Special Event: Dr. W. Wood Lecture on Textile Patterns, Indigenous Weavers, and Global Flows
"The Migration of Thought," print by Kim Abeles
OBJECTS ON THE MOVE
2018-2019 ANTHROPOLOGY LECTURE SERIES
“Reproducing Hearst Collection Textiles: Tracking a Global Meshwork Ethnographically”
A lecture by Dr. W. Warner Wood
Monday, October 15, 4:00 PM
Cudahy Science Hall, Room 207
This talk traces a textile pattern’s appearance in wool blankets sold through Pendleton Wool Mills as “Hearst Ginda Verde.” It unravels the meandering story of this pattern from its origins in the late 1800s, to its reproduction by the business Santa Fe Interiors in the 1990s, and on to its more recent sale through Pendleton. Approaching the pattern ethnographically points toward the ways that indigenous weavers become entangled in global articulations and practices. Such entanglements tell a story of cultural appropriation, exploitation, accommodation as well as of the resistance of indigenous weavers in the US and Mexico.
Dr. Wood is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Coordinator of the Museum Studies Graduate Certificate Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research addresses cultural and natural heritage in Mexico as well as museum textile collections. He authored Made In Mexico: Zapotec Weavers and the Global Ethnic Art Market (IUP 2008) and is currently writing a book on ecotourism and community museum development in Oaxaca.
