| Sandra Niessen - all publications |
Books | Articles and chapters in books | Review articles
Books:
| 2009 | forthcoming: Het Tuinmanshuisje in Oosterbeek. Oosterbeek: Uitgeverij Kontrast. |
| 2009 | *Legacy in cloth: Batak textiles of Indonesia Leiden: KITLV Press. 568 pps. 900 illns. |
| 2009 | Ed: Rita Bolland (1919-2006): Curator of textiles. Bulletin of the Royal Tropical Institute 388. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers. 87 pps. |
| 2003 | Niessen, S., Leshkowich, A.M and. Jones, C. *Re-Orienting Fashion: The Globalization of Asian Dress. Oxford: Berg Publishers. 283 pps |
| 1998 | Brydon, A. and Niessen, S. *Consuming Fashion: Adorning the Transnational Body Oxford: Berg Publishers. 196 pps. |
| 1994 | DeBernardi, J., Forth, G. and Niessen, S. *Managing Change in Southeast Asia: Local Identities, Global Connections. Proceedings of the 21st Meetings of the Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies. Ottawa. |
| 1994 | Hardy, M. and Niessen, S. Exploring New Horizons: Craft Emerges. Department of Human Ecology, University of Alberta |
| 1993 | Batak Cloth and Clothing: A Dynamic Indonesian Tradition. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press. 167 pps., 100 photographs. |
| 1985 | *Motifs of Life in Toba Batak Texts and Textiles. Verhandelingen Series of the KITLV No. 110, Dordrecht: Foris Publications. 249 pps. |
| 1982 | De Leidse Richting: Toen en Thans (The Leiden “School”: Then and Now), Leiden: ICA/SNWV. 132 pps. |
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Articles and chapters in books
| i.p. (2010) | “Interpreting Civilization through Dress” in the first international (10-volume) Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion Vol 8: West Europe, Part I: Overview of Dress and Fashion in West Europe. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 4,000 words. |
| i.p. (2009) | Two-page spread on Batak Textiles In: Paths of Origins: Austronesia in the Collections of The National Museum of the Philippines, The Museum Nasional Indonesia and The Netherlands Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Purissima Benitez-Johannot (Editor). Singapore/Manila: ArtpostAsia |
| 2008 | Les Étoffes Batak: L’Histoire de Deux Cultures. In Au Nord de sumatra Les Batak. Milan: 5 Continents Editions and Paris: Musée du Quai Branly. pp. 55–71. |
| 2007 | “Het einde van “Bergoord, een herenhuis in Oosterbeek. ” Schoutambt en Heerlijkheid 21(3):13-44. |
| 2007 | “Re-Orienting Fashion Theory” in Welters, L and Abby Lillethun (eds) The Fashion Reader. Oxford/New York: Berg. pp 105-110. |
| 2005 | The Prism of Fashion: Temptation, Resistance and Trade/ Het Prisma van de Mode; Verleiding, Verzet en Handel. In Jan Brand and José Teunissen (eds.) Global Fashion Local Tradition: On the Globalisation of Fashion/Over de globalisering van de mode. Arnhem: ArtEZ hogeschool voor de kunsten, Arnhem and Centraal Museum and Utrecht: Terra. pp. 156-181. |
| 2003 | Uit de doeken doen: Etnografisch textiel in de collectie Bronbeek,” Moesson 47 (7):30-33. |
| 2003 | *“Afterword: Reorienting Fashion Theory” In Niessen, S.A., A. Leshkowich, and C. Jones (eds.) Re-orienting Fashion: The Globalization of Asian Dress. Oxford: Berg Publishers. pp. 243-266 |
| 2003 | *“Three Scenarios from Batak Clothing History: Designing Participation in the Global Fashion Trajectory” In Niessen, S.A., A. Leshkowich, and C. Jones (eds.) Re-orienting Fashion: The Globalization of Asian Dress. Oxford: Berg Publishers. pp. 49-78 |
| 1999 | “Cultural Costs of Crafts Development in Indonesia,” Crafts News 10 (40): 6-7. |
| 1999 | *“Threads of Tradition, Threads of Invention: Unraveling Toba Batak Women’s Expressions of Social Change” In Ruth B. Phillips and Christopher Steiner (eds.), Unnpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds. Los Angeles: University of California Press. pp. 162 – 177. |
| 1998 | *“Introduction: Adorning the Body” In Brydon, A. and S. Niessen (eds.) Consuming Fashion: Adorning the Transnational Body. Oxford: Berg Publishers. pp. ix – xvii. |
| 1998 | *“Asian Examples of Craft in Trade: The Social, the Cultural, and the Unsustainable” In Suzanne Loker, Linda Good, and Patricia Huddleston (eds.) Softgoods to the World. ITAA Monograph #9. Monument, CO: ITAA Inc. pp. 27–37. |
| 1997 | *“Representing the Ainu Reconsidered” Museum Anthropology 20(3): 132 – 144. |
| 1996 | “Foreign Penetration of North Sumatra” In Anthony Reid (ed.) Early Modern History, Indonesian Heritage Series. Singapore: Didier Millet. |
| 1996 | “North-Sumatran Weavers in a Global Economy” In Michael C. Howard (ed.), Contemporary Cultural Anthropology, 5th ed. HarperCollins, pp. 116-118. |
| 1994 | *“The Ainu in Mimpaku: A Representation of Japan’s Indigenous People at the National Museum of Ethnology” In Museum Anthropology 18(3):1-8. |
| 1994 | “Words Can’t Weave Cloth: Limits of the Textual For the Weave Technical” In Lynne Milgram and Penny van Esterik (eds.). The Transformative Power of Cloth in Southeast Asia. Toronto:CCSEAS and The Museum for Textiles, pp. 128-134. |
| 1993 | “Changes in Batak Textiles During the 19th Century” In Nabholz-Kartaschoff, Marie-Louise, Ruth Barnes and David Stuart-Fox (eds.) Weaving Patterns of Life. Indonesian Textile Symposium Proceedings 1991. Basel: Museum of Ethnography, pp. 127-134. |
| 1992 | “Economics of Batak Weaving” In M. Howard (ed.), Contemporary Cultural Anthropology, 4th ed., 4pp. |
| 1991 | “The Tale that 1001 Batak Textiles Tell about 12 European Museums: A Collection History: in Gisela Volger and Karin von Welck (eds.), Indonesian Textiles: Symposium 1985, pp. 132-152. |
| 1991 | “Batak Clothing at the Turn of the 19th Century: Working Paper”, Burnaby: Centre for International Studies, Simon Fraser University, 23 pp. |
| 1991 | “Four Unknown Batak Textiles” Arts of Asia 21(5): 159-162. |
| 1991 | *“Meandering Through Batak Textiles” Ars Textrina. 16:7-47. |
| 1991 | *“Interpreting Photographs: There’s More To It Than Meets the Eye. Photoelicitation Amongst the Batak of Sumatra” Visual Anthropology. 4:415-430. |
| 1990 | “Toba Batak Textile Invention” Textiles in Trade: Proceedings of The Textile Society of America Biennial Symposium. |
| 1989 | “The Sadum” Tribal Art II: 15-24. Geneva: Association of the Friends of the Barbier-Mueller Museum. |
| 1989 | *“Warp Exchange in the Batak Ragidup and Bulang Textiles” Textile Museum Journal 27/28: 40-55. |
| 1988 | “Cognitive Cloths: The Indigenous Classification of Batak Textiles” In John E. Vollmer (ed.) Textiles as Primary Sources. Proceedings of the First Symposium of the Textile Society of America, pp. 94-103. |
| 1988 | “Modigliani’s Batak Textiles: Evaluation of a Collection” Archivio per l’Antropologia e la Etnologia 118:57-91. |
| 1985 | “Textiles are Female, but what is Femaleness? Toba Batak Textiles in an Indonesian Field of Anthropological Study” In P.E. de Josselin de Jong (ed.), Unity in Diversity: Indonesia as a Field of Anthropological Study, Verhandelingen Series of the KITLV No. 103, pp. 63-83. |
| 1983 | *“Toba Batak Matriliny: A Deception?” Bijdragen tot de Taal-Land-, en Volkenkunde 139/4:465-469. |
| 1982 | “Descent versus Exchange in the Batak Tunggal Panaluan Myth” Working Paper No. 28. Leiden; Institute of Cultural and Social Studies. |
| *(peer reviewed) | |
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Review articles
| 2006 (i.p.) | Exhibition Review: “Nous Autres”. An exhibition in the Ethnographic Museum of Geneva (11 November 2005 -01 April 2007). Unpublished. |
| 2006 (i.p.) | Exhibition Review: “La fibre des ancêtres” (“The fibre of the ancestors”: An exhibit of Indonesian textiles in the Ethnographic Museum of Geneva (22 March – 31 December). Unpublished. |
| 2005 | Review of David. W. Fraser and Barbara G. Fraser, 2005. Mantles of Merit; Chin Textiles from Myanmar, India and Bangladesh. Bangkok, Thailand: River Books Co. Ltd.. for Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (BKI) |
| 2005 | Review of Maxwell, Robyn, Sari to Sarong; Five Hundred years of Indian and Indonesian textile exchange. 2003. Canberra, National Gallery of Australia and Dhamija, Jasleen. Woven Magic; The Affinity between Indian and Indonesian Textiles, 2002. Jakarta: Dian Rakyat. For Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (BKI) 161 2/3, pp. 385-387. |
| 2004 | Review of Gavin, Traude, Iban Ritual Textiles. 2003. Leiden: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde 205. KITLV Press. For Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde BKI. |
| 2003 | Exhibition Review: MoMu: A Stylish Newcomer in the world of Fashion and Museums. For Material History Review |
| 2003 | Review of Linda Welters (ed.), 1999. Folk Dress in Europe and Anatolia: Beliefs about Protection and Fertility. Oxford: Berg Publishers. Material History Review 56:69-70. |
| 1999 | Review of Elisha P. Renne, 1995. Cloth that does not die: The Meaning of Cloth in Bunu Social Life. Seattle and Washington: University of Washington Press,. For Ethnologies 21(2):206-209. |
| 1998 | Review of Janet Rodenburg, 1998, In the shadow of migration: Rural women and their households in North Tapanuli, Indonesia.. Leiden: KITLV Press (Verhandelingen 174). For Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (BKI). 154(3): 498-501. |
| 1997 | Review of Joanne B. Eicher (ed.) 1995. Dress and Ethnicity. Oxford: Berg Publishers . For Culture: The Journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society. |
| 1995 | Review of Hamilton, R. (ed.) 1994. Gift of the Cotton Maiden. Fowler Museum of Cultural History and University of California, Los Angeles. For Indonesia Circle 41: 13, 14. |
| 1995 | Review of Margot Schevill, Janet Catherine Berlo, and Edward B. Dwyer (eds.) 1991. Textile Traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes. New York, London: Garland Publishing, Inc.. For Museum Anthropology 19 ( 1), 2 pp. |
| 1994 | Review of L. Stephen, Zapotec Women, For Man 29 (2):533-534. |
| 1994 | Review of Mary Steedly, Hanging Without a Rope. For Pacific Affairs 67(3): 472-474. |
| 1993 | Review of Jane Gaines and Charlotte Herzog (eds.) Fabrications: Costume and the Female Body. For Cinemas 3, (2/3):247-251. |
| 1992 | Review of R. Maxwell, 1990. Textiles of Southeast Asia: Tradition, Trade and Transformation, and M. Hitchcock, 1991, Indonesian Textiles. For Museum Anthropology, 1992:82-83. |
| 1991 | Review of Mattiebelle Gittinger (ed.), To Speak With Cloth. For Museum Anthropology Newsletter 15(1):19-21. |
| 1991 | Review of Catherine C. Cole (ed.) Norwegian Immigrant Clothing. For Alberta Museums Review. 2 pps. |
| 1991 | Review of Catherine Cooper Cole, The Great Western Garment Company 1911-1939: “Who Threw The Overalls in Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder?” For Alberta Museums Review. 2 pps. |
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