The 2nd ASEAN Traditional Textiles Symposium

Dr. Donald Rubinstein is Professor of Anthropology and Micronesian Studies at the University of Guam. He has conducted long-term anthropological fieldwork in Micronesia, with a concentration in the Yap Outer Islands and Chuuk in the western Caroline Islands, on a variety of topics related to social organization, child socialization, medical anthropology, adolescent suicide, cultural change, and arts. He has particular interest in textile arts and has published articles and curated exhibitions on Micronesian textile arts. rubinste@uog9.uog.edu

Paper (pdf): A Preservation Project and Its Paradoxic Problems: Sustaining Traditional Textiles on Fais Island in Micronesia