Lynn Meisch

Author of Traditional Textiles of the Andes: Life and Cloth in the Highlands

About the Author

Lynn A. Meisch is Associate Professor of Anthropology at St. Mary's College of California, Moraga. She has known Otavalo as "a traveler, independent scholar, tour guide, development worker and teacher of textile techniques, leader of study abroad programs, textile collector for museum exhibitions, show more anthropologist, and godmother to eighteen children from both indigenous and white-mestizo families of varying social and economic classes." show less

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Traditional Textiles of the Andes: Life and Cloth in the Highlands (1997) — Editor — 60 copies, 1 review

Costume and Identity in Highland Ecuador (1998) 37 copies

A traveler's guide to El Dorado & the Inca Empire (A Penguin handbook original) (1977) 13 copies

Andean Entrepreneurs: Otavalo Merchants and Musicians in the Global Arena (2002) 10 copies

Weaving and Dyeing in Highland Ecuador (2007) 8 copies

Traveler's Guide (A Penguin Handbook) (1977) 7 copies

Otavalo : weaving, costume, and the market 6 copies

Traditional Textiles of the Andes. Life and Cloth in the Highlands 1 copy

To honor the ancestors : life and cloth in the Andes 1 copy, 1 review

Fajas sara : supervivencia de una tradición textil inca en el norte del Perú 1 copy, 1 review

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Associated Works

Faking the Ancient Andes (2010) — Cover photographer — 13 copies

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