Performing Craft in Mexico
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Performing Craft in Mexico

Artisans, Aesthetics, and the Power of Translation

  1. 331 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Performing Craft in Mexico

Artisans, Aesthetics, and the Power of Translation

About this book

Performing Craft in Mexico examines how Mexican artisans and diverse actors perform as translators of aesthetics, politics, and history through the field of craft. The contributors build from historical and ethnographic archives and direct engagement with makers to reassemble an expanded vision of artisanal production and the complicated classifications that surround Mexican popular art-making—from the Anglo term "craft" to the Spanish term "artesanía." This book also homages Dr. Janet Brody Esser's research on the Blackmen masquerades of Michoacán, exploring African history and presence in Mexico. The contributors provide wide-ranging insight into the agency, history, and contemporary world of Mexican makers and other entangled actors in the field of craft.

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Yes, you can access Performing Craft in Mexico by Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Sozialwissenschaften & Kunst Allgemein. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9798881880682
Edition
1
Topic
Sozialwissenschaften
Subtopic
Kunst Allgemein

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledging
  8. Prolonging
  9. An Appreciation of Dr. Janet B. Esser
  10. Prefacing Things: A Pondering
  11. Chapter 1: Introducing Things: Between the Lines
  12. Part I: Translating Insides and Outsides, Materials and Gestures, Nomadic Aesthetics and Community
  13. Pondering Two
  14. Chapter 2: Artisans and Crafts in Postrevolutionary Mexico
  15. Pondering Three
  16. Chapter 3: The Rebozo: The Stereotype of the Popular Mexican Woman in Nineteenth-Century Art and Onward
  17. Pondering Four
  18. Chapter 4: Performative Materiality, Masks, and Masking in Teloloapan, Guerrero
  19. Pondering Five
  20. Chapter 5: Indigenous Aesthetics and Glocalization: Recursive Agencies and Reflexivity
  21. Pondering Six
  22. Chapter 6: Identity, Female Empowerment, and Resistance through Textile Crafts in the P’urhĂ©pecha Region of Mexico
  23. Pondering Seven
  24. Chapter 7: The Triqui Huipil as a Representation of Territory: Women Immigrants between Oaxaca and San Luis PotosĂ­
  25. Part II: Fortleben
  26. Chapter 8: Pondering Fortleben: An Interview with Janet B. Esser
  27. Chapter 9: Selected Excerpts: Winter Ceremonial Masks of the Tarascan Sierra, MichoacĂĄn, MĂ©xico
  28. Chapter 10: Afterword
  29. Chapter 11: Masks in Performance: Selected Fieldwork Photographs Janet B. Esser
  30. Biographical Synthesis Dr. Janet B. Esser
  31. Janet B. Esser Selected Bibliography
  32. Glossary
  33. List of Figures
  34. Index
  35. About the Contributors