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  • Performing Craft in Mexico: Artisans, Aesthetics, and the Power of Translation

    Performing Craft in Mexico by Feder-Nadoff, Michele Avis;

    Artisans, Aesthetics, and the Power of Translation

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    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 8 April 2024
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781793639998
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages330 pages
    • Size 228.85x152.4x18.288 mm
    • Weight 454 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 28 b/w illustration
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    "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 Spanish term ""artesanï¿1⁄2a."" This book also homages Dr. Janet Brody Esser's research on the Blackmen masquerades of Michoacï¿1⁄2n, 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."

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    Table of Contents:

    Acknowledging: The Widening Circles
    Prolonging: Following Folds beyond Boundaries
    Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff
    An Appreciation of Dr. Janet B. Esser: From Brooklyn to Michoacï¿1⁄2n
    Natasha Bonilla Eckholm
    Prefacing Things: A Pondering
    Michele AvisFeder-Nadoff
    Chapter 1: Introducing Things: Between the Lines
    Michele AvisFeder-Nadoff
    PART ONE: TRANSLATING INSIDES AND OUTSIDES, MATERIALS AND GESTURES, NOMADIC AESTHETICS AND COMMUNITY
    Pondering Two
    Eugenio Mercado Lï¿1⁄2pez
    Chapter 2: Artisans and Crafts in Postrevolutionary Mexico
    Eugenio Mercado Lï¿1⁄2pez
    Pondering Three
    Amalia Ramï¿1⁄2rez Garayzar
    Chapter 3: The Rebozo: The Stereotype of the Popular Mexican Woman in Nineteenth-Century Art and Onward
    Amalia Ramï¿1⁄2rez Garayzar
    Pondering Four
    Anne W.Johnson
    Chapter 4: Performative Materiality, Masks, and Masking in Teloloapan, Guerrero
    Anne W.Johnson
    Pondering Five
    Eva Maria Garrido Izaguirre
    Chapter 5: Indigenous Aesthetics and Glocalization: Recursive Agencies and Reflexivity
    Eva Marï¿1⁄2a Garrido Izaguirre
    Pondering Six
    Lorena Ojeda Dï¿1⁄2vila and Iris Calderï¿1⁄2n Tï¿1⁄2llez

    Chapter 6: Identity, Female Empowerment, and Resistance through Textile Crafts in the P'urhï¿1⁄2pecha Region of Mexico
    Lorena Ojeda Dï¿1⁄2vila and Iris Calderï¿1⁄2n Tï¿1⁄2llez
    Pondering Seven
    Claudia Rocha Valverde
    Chapter 7: The Triqui Huipil as a Representation of Territory: Women Immigrants between Oaxaca and San Luis Potosï¿1⁄2
    Claudia RochaValverde
    PART TWO: FORTLEBEN: CALLING FORTH, LIVING FORTH
    Chapter 8: Pondering Fortleben: An Interview with Janet B. Esser
    Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff
    Chapter 9: Selected Excerpts: Winter Ceremonial Masks of the Tarascan
    Sierra, Michoacï¿1⁄2n, Mï¿1⁄2xico
    Dr. Janet B. Esser
    Introduction
    Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff
    Chapter 10: Afterword
    Ronda L. Brulotte
    Chapter 11: Masks in Performance: Selected Fieldwork Photographs
    Dr. Janet B. Esser
    Biographical Synthesis
    Dr. Janet B. Esser
    Janet B. Esser Selected Bibliography

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