Performing Craft in Mexico

Artisans, Aesthetics, and the Power of Translation

Buch | Hardcover

330 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-3997-4 (ISBN)

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This book examines how Mexican artisans and artistic actors participate in translations 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 in Mexico and the complicated classifications that surround Mexican popular art-making—from the American “craft” to the Spanish “artesanía.” This book also homages Dr. Janet Brody Esser’s research on the Blackmen masquerades of Michoacán, exploring African culture in Mexico. The contributors provide wide-ranging insight into the colonial influences on Mexican popular art and its translation as well as the agency of creators and actors.

Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff is an independent scholar, founder of Cuentos Foundation, and assistant editor of the Journal of Embodied Research.

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 Purépecha 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

Erscheinungsdatum	09.03.2022
Co-Autor	Natasha Bonilla Eckholm, Iris Calderón Téllez, Janet B. Esser
Nachwort	Ronda Brulotte
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 238 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-7936-3997-3 / 1793639973
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-3997-4 / 9781793639974
Zustand	Neuware