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Made in Mexico : Zapotec weavers and the global ethnic art market / W. Warner Wood.
Penn Museum Library F1221.Z3 W66 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wood, W. Warner.
- Series:
- Tracking globalization
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zapotec textile fabrics--Marketing.
- Zapotec textile fabrics.
- Zapotec weavers--Social conditions.
- Zapotec weavers.
- Textile industry--Mexico.
- Textile industry.
- Ethnic art--Mexico--Marketing.
- Ethnic art.
- Art and globalization.
- Marketing.
- Social conditions.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 243 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- Made in Mexico introduces us to the people, places, and ideas that create Zapotec textiles and give them meaning. From the households and workshops of Oaxaca, where guides escort tourists to weavers' homes and then to the shops and markets where weavings are sold, to the galleries and stores of the American Southwest, where textiles are displayed and purchased as home decor or ethnic artwork, W. Warner Wood's intriguing account crosses the border in both directions. Wood explains how the international market for Native American art shapes weavers' design choices. He shows that although those who participate in this trade are influenced by familiar images of rustic authenticity, of indigenous tradition that connects the Mexican nation to its pre-Hispanic past, in fact, Zapotec textiles are thoroughly contemporary commodities moving through transnational circuits. While Zapotec weavers work alone at the loom, weaving is a social practice. Wood presents the complex story behind the production, marketing, and consumption of Zapotec textiles through an account of the social practices that give them value.
- Contents:
- ¡Viva Oaxaca, no hay otro!
- Touring Zapotec weavers, or the bug in the rug
- Selling Zapotec textiles in the "land of enchantment"
- The Zapotec industry
- The Zapotec textile production complex
- "We learn to weave by weaving"
- To learn weaving, made in Mexico
- Crafting Zapotec weaving practices.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-233) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780253351548
- 0253351545
- 9780253219862
- 0253219868
- OCLC:
- 177008238
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