The Feminist Tourist and Mithila Art in India and Nepal. Consumerism for the Development of the Modern Woman
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Mithila art, NGO, feminism, tourism, globalization, Third World women.
Abstract
Mithila art, traditionally made by the women from India and Nepal, has experimented huge changes in the last years since the emergence of tourism and NGOs, which have transformed this ancient practice into a commercialized form of art on the aim of collaborating in the development of the “third world women” through the sale of their creative work.Downloads
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2014-11-13
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de la Rubia Gómez-Morán A. (2014). The Feminist Tourist and Mithila Art in India and Nepal. Consumerism for the Development of the Modern Woman. Anales de Historia del Arte, 24, 221-237. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ANHA.2014.v24.47186
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