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Performing craft in Mexico : artisans, aesthetics, and the power of translation / edited by Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agent (Philosophy).
- Art and society--Mexico.
- Art and society.
- Artisans--Mexico.
- Artisans.
- Decorative arts--Mexico.
- Decorative arts.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxv, 304 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2022.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022]
- Summary:
- This book examines how Mexican artisans and diverse actors participate in translations of aesthetics, politics, and history through the field of craft.
- "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 Latin 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." -- Publisher's description
- Contents:
- Acknowledging: The widening circles
- Prolonging: Following folds beyond boundaries / Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff
- An appreciation of Dr. Janet B. Esser: From Brooklyn to Michoacán / Natasha Bonilla Eckholm
- Prefacing things: A pondering / Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff
- Introducing things: Between the lines / Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff
- Part one: translating insides and outsides, materials and gestures, nomadic aesthetics and community
- Pondering two / Eugenio Mercado López
- Artisans and crafts in postrevolutionary Mexico / Eugenio Mercado López
- Pondering three / Amalia Ramírez Garayzar
- The Rebozo: The stereotype of the popular Mexican woman in nineteenth-century art and onward / Amalia Ramírez Garayzar
- Pondering Four / Anne W. Johnson
- Performative materiality, masks, and masking in Teloloapan, Guerrero / Anne W. Johnson
- Pondering Five / Eva Maria Garrido Izaguirre
- Indigenous aesthetics and glocalization: Recursive agencies and reflexivity / Eva María Garrido Izaguirre
- Pondering Six / Lorena Ojeda Dávila and ǂr Iris Calderón Téllez
- Identity, female empowerment, and resistance through textile crafts in the P' urhépecha region of Mexico / Lorena Ojeda Dávila and Iris Calderón Téllez
- Pondering Seven / Claudia Rocha Valverde
- The Triqui Huipil as a representation of territory: Women immigrants between Oaxaca and San Luis Potosí / Claudia Rocha Valverde
- Part two: Fortleben: Calling forth, living forth
- Pondering Fortleben: An interview with Janet B. Esser / Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff
- Selected Excerpts: Winter ceremonial masks of the Tarascan Sierra, Michoacán, México / Dr. Janet B. Esser
- Introduction / Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff
- Afterword / Ronda L. Brulotte
- Masks in performance: Selected fieldwork photographs / Dr. Janet B. Esser
- Biographical Synthesis / Dr. Janet B. Esser.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 01, 2022).
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-42930-2
- 1-7936-3998-1
- OCLC:
- 1310467530
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