Why cloth? Wealth, gender, and power in Oceania / Annete B. Weiner
Cloth and the creation of ancestors in Madagascar / Gillian Feeley-Harnik
Dressing for the next life: Raffia textile production and use among the Kuba of Zaire / Patricia Darish / Why do ladies sing the blues? Indigo dyeing, cloth production, and gender symbolism in Kodi / Janet Hoskins
Rumpelstiltskin's bargain: folklore and the merchant capitalist intensification of linen manufacture in early modern Europe / Jane Schneider
Spun virtue, the lacework of folly, and the world wound upside-down: seventeenth-century Dutch depictions of female handwork / Linda Stone-Ferrier
Embroidery for tourists: a contemporary putting-out system in Oaxaca, Mexico / Ronald Waterbury
Cloth and its function in the Inka state / John V. Murra
Cloth, clothes, and colonialism: India in the nineteenth century / Bernard S. Cohn
Gandhi and Khadi, the fabric of Indian independence / Susan S. Bean
The changing fortunes of three archaic Japanese textiles / Louise Allison Cort.