Joanne B. Eicher papers
Scope and Content
The collection includes correspondence, also symposium and exhibit information, including textile loans, travel information/itineraries, class papers, such as student reviews and syllabi, committee information, personal papers, printed matter relating to her books, including drafts, publisher's notes, and reviews.
Correspondence can be found in boxes 1-4; speech, seminar, and symposium information can be found in boxes 4-5; travel information can be found in boxes 5 and 12; books and publication information is in boxes 7-9.
Dates
- 1962-2014
Creator
- Eicher, Joanne Bubolz (Person)
Language of Materials
English
Use of Materials
Items in this collection do not circulate and may be used in-house only.
Copyright
Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provision of the copyright law Title 17, U.S. Code. Requests to publish should be arranged with the University of Minnesota Archives.
Biographical Sketch of Joanne Eicher
Joanne B. Eicher received her M.S. and Ph.D. in sociology and anthropology from Michigan State University, and was a professor in its Department of Human Environment and Design, where she taught fashion and textiles. Eicher spent time in Nigeria in the 1960’s, where she began studying African dress, particularly that of the Kalabari people. Eicher is now the world's foremost scholar of Kalabari textiles, and an international authority in the field of African textiles and sociocultural aspects of dress.
Eicher joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota on August 16, 1977, being named the head of the Department of Textiles and Clothing. She remained department head until 1983, and then became head of the Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel from 1983 through 1987. She was also a director of the Goldstein Gallery. On June 9, 1995, Eicher was awarded a Regents’ Professorship by the Board of Regents.
Eicher has co-written several books, including Dress and Gender Dress, Adornment and Social OrderBeads and Beadmakers The Visible Selfand African Dress II. She also wrote Nigerian Handcrafted Textiles, Dress and Ethnicity and African Dress: A Select and Annotated Biography of Subsaharan Countries.
Eicher retired from teaching at the University of Minnesota in June, 2005.
Extent
16.25 Cubic Feet (13 boxes)
Abstract
Collection contains papers of Joanne Eicher, a Regents professor, and former head of the Department of Textiles and Clothing at the University of Minnesota
Source of acquisition
Collection donated by Joanne Eicher on September 2, 2005. Additional materials transferred by the Deptartment of Housing, Design and Apparel in 2018.
- Clothing and dress Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Clothing and dress -- Africa Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Costume Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Cross-cultural studies Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Textile Fabric Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Title
- Joanne B. Eicher papers, 1962-2017
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Amy Flessert
- Date
- September 2005
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Revision Statements
- October 2018: Accession from Dept. of Design, Housing, & Apparel added
Collecting Area Details
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