The making of “asli” Sumba woven cloth: how globalising “intangible heritage” impacts women’s roles

Rustina Untari, Radhika Gajjala and Ridwan Sanjaya

Development in Practice, 2020, vol. 30, issue 8, 1094-1104

Abstract: This article discusses how the production of “original”/“asli” commodity through a local/global dialectic in how “intangible heritage” is defined and how contemporary global market-facing Sumba weaving contributes to shifts and contradictions in gender roles as they are shaped simultaneously through local community needs and through a global facing westernised patriarchal business ethos. The increasing global north facing integration of global south production communities into the world markets for instance, leads to a masculinisation of management and global facing leadership while along with a feminisation of the local production process. Evidence for our observations were drawn from over 50 in-depth interviews and onsite observation during field visits to the site.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2020.1759509

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