Anthropology 2285- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 44 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Anthro 2285 week 8 notes on pattern, ef cacy and. Since european intervention in the paci c, a huge change has taken place with clothing and textiles. Calico and clothing played such a vital role for mediating social relationships just as guns and scrap metal. Their dress in a mismatch of striped calicoes or discarded victorian clothing was often seen as an attempt to conform to missionary stipulations concerning the dressing of the body. Many melanesians selectively sough out printed garments of various types. They put more thought into it than they"re given credit for. Considerable quantities of calico and clothing were imported into the paci c with the advent of regular trade voyages in the region, whaling expeditions and the establishment of the rst christian missions in the nineteenth century. Calico is highly durable and portable and would have been easily transported on board ships to the paci c.
