Encountering Craft

Chandan Bose is a cultural anthropologist who works on craft production in contemporary India. He is Assistant Professor at the Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. Mira Mohsini (she/her) is a trained cultural anthropologist. She has conducted ethnographic research in India on urban craft economies, with a focus on how Muslim artisans adapt, survive, and create in the midst of multiple intersecting forms of marginalization.

1. Introduction

Chandan Bose and Mira Mohsini

2. Critical Cloth: The Contemporary Toile de Jouy Print as Postcolonial Critique in Art and Design

Stephanie Sabo

3. On crafting history in a time without craftiness

Sarah Teasley

4. Narrating indigo: Telling and re-telling subjectivities of craft in India

Aarti Kawlra

5. Disentangling history and practice in the weaving and dyeing course at Kyoto City University of Arts

Elena Cinelli

6. Prolegomena for World War I craft therapy for American injured soldiers and Reconstruction Aides

Jennifer Way

7. Theorising Indigenous art practice, practicing Indigenous art theories: Māori weaving as research methodology

Hinekura Smith

8. Encountering gendered sociality on field: People and objects in Kashmir

Nikita Kaul

9. "Writing Practices" and Writing "Practices": Observation and struggle in fieldnotes about artisanal work

Alanna Cant

10. Coda

Chandan Bose and Mira Mohsini