Carocci, Max (2010) Textiles of healing: Native American AIDS quilts. Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture 8 (1), pp. 68-84. ISSN 1475-9756.
Abstract
Around the world responses to AIDS and HIV are expressed in material form through idioms mediated by particular social and historical contingencies. In this article I examine at the case of AIDS memorial quilts produced by contemporary Native Americans. The invisible connections between people, their histories, and cultures that are materialized in this particular form of textiles make them culturally significant vehicles for healing practices for many Native Americans, who maintain that the acknowledgment of customary meanings ensures ritual efficacy and curing success. As a particular response to AIDS, grief, death, and healing these objects reveal the social relevance of expressing materially culturally encoded messages that are simultaneously rooted in universally shared idioms and the uniqueness of local experiences.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | AIDS, North American Indians, mourning customs, textiles, material culture, memory, beadwork, blankets, quilts, healing |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Feb 2011 09:30 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 16:54 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/3092 |
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