Read more
This book examines how Mexican artisans and diverse actors participate in translations of aesthetics, politics, and history through the field of craft.
List of contents
Chapter One: Introducing Things: Between the Lines
Part One: Translating Insides and Outsides, Materials and Gestures, Nomadic Aesthetics and Community
Chapter Two: Artisans and Crafts in Post-revolutionary Mexico
Chapter Three: The Case of the Rebozo: Stereotypes about Mexicanidad and Femininity in the Art of the Nineteenth Century
Chapter Four: Performative Materiality, Masks and Masking in Teloloapan, Guerrero
Chapter Five: Indigenous Aesthetics and "Glocalization": Recursive Agencies and Reflexivity
Chapter Six: Identity, Female Empowerment and Resistance through Textile Crafts in the Pure¿pecha Region of Mexico
Chapter Seven: The Triqui Huipil as a Representation of Territory: Women Immigrants between Oaxaca and San Luis Potosí
Part Two: Fortleben: Calling Forth, Living Forth
Chapter Eight: Pondering Fortleben: An interview with Janet Esser
Chapter Nine: Winter Ceremonial Masks of the Tarascan Sierra, Michoacán, Mexico-Selected Excerpts
Chapter Ten: Afterword
About the author
Edited by Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff - Afterword by Ronda Brulotte - Contributions by Natasha Bonilla Eckholm; Iris Calderón Téllez; Janet B. Esser; Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff; Eva María Garrido Izaguirre; Anne W. Johnson; Eugenio Mercado López; Lorena Ojed
Summary
This book examines how Mexican artisans and artistic actors participate in translations of aesthetics, politics, and history through the field of craft.
