An anthropology of making in Santa Clara del Cobre : presence of absence / Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff ; foreword by Tim Ingold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feder-Nadoff, Michele, author.

Contributor:

Ingold, Tim, 1948- writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and anthropology--Mexico--Santa Clara del Cobre.

Art and anthropology.

Handicraft--Mexico--Santa Clara del Cobre.

Handicraft.

Handicraft--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 484 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland, [2024]

Summary:

"This book offers a nuanced reflection on the meaning of making and artisan agency, demonstrating how copper-smithing produces not only objects, but also lives, worlds, meanings, and social transformation. Through long-term ethnography, grounded in apprenticeship to master coppersmith Jess Prez Ornelas, Feder-Nadoffs intimate description of communal and artisanal life in Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacn, Mxico provides a critical reappraisal of aesthetics and compelling ways to think about how aura and agency are produced. By mapping flows and frictions between persons, places, and things, this study closes the gap between economic and socio-political analysis of craft, on the one hand, and aesthetic, material, and phenomenological studies of making, on the other. Although craft historically plays a prominent national, even ideological role in Mexico, as in many countries, most artisans ironically remain absent, often living in marginalized, precarious circumstances. By tracing the cycles of life, death, and afterlife, of these maker-protagonists, their bodies of knowledge, skilled performances, and objects, this poetic monograph testifies to their presence." -- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-468) and index.

ISBN:

3031366816

9783031366819

OCLC:

1382626198

Publisher Number:

90100165352