So I just read Women’s Work: The First 20,000 years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber and now I thirst for more knowledge about the history of civilization!
Topics I am interested in (but don’t know much about):
**More stuff about textiles!**
– Women’s Work didn’t really discuss history past antiquity. I’d love to hear about textile work in medieval times and the renaissance!
– History and culture around knitting or crochet
**Linguistics**
– I’ve been reading a lot of interesting things on Wikipedia about regional languages and dialects and cants and pidgins and creoles and I want to learn more from a writer who knows their stuff!
– I’m particularly interested in historical minority European languages (eg. Basque, Tatar, Sami, Romani, Yiddish, Manx, etc) and like, the process by which diverse regional languages have started to disappear in favour of a lingua franca.
**Culture and colonialism/imperialism**
– I want to read about the role of colonialism and imperialism in the destruction of culture. Especially if it’s about less talked about things. Like obviously European colonization of the americas eradicated a lot of Indigenous cultures, but I also think it would be interesting to read about “smaller” more localized things like how Nazi Germany suppressed a lot of different regional styles of tracht in favour of presenting Bavarian dress (dirndls and lederhosen) as *The* German national costume. Just kind of how imperialism pushes for cultural homogeneity within the empire and such.
**What were common people up to throughout history?**
– the lives of medieval peasants
– pre Roman civilization
– nuns
– the lives of unmarried women throughout history
**Various cultural anthropology**
– I love to learn about what kinds of practices evolved independently in multiple cultures and what kinds of things had to be spread by contact.
– discussion of what things are cultural and what are human nature
– discussion of how every culture has some form of religion and what that says about the human mind
Sorry I know this is a lot of different topics but I am very curious about everything
by IReadBooksSometimes