Performing Craft in Mexico
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| ISBN13: | 9781793639998 |
| ISBN10: | 179363999X |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 330 pages |
| Size: | 228x152x18 mm |
| Weight: | 454 g |
| Language: | English |
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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 Spanish 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.
Performing Craft in Mexico pays homage to the groundbreaking scholarship of Janet Brody Esser (1930?2019), an art historian who taught at San Diego State University and a pioneer in the study of what is loosely termed ?craft," ?folk art,? ?ethnic art," and, in Spanish, artesanía. Attesting to Esser's scholarly legacy, the selections from Esser?s dissertation and the essays offer a comprehensible introduction to key developments in the art-historical and anthropological engagement with an art that is other in terms of production, producer, social resonance, and performative, embodied experience. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals/practitioners.
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 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 López
Chapter 2: Artisans and Crafts in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Eugenio Mercado López
Pondering Three
Amalia Ramírez Garayzar
Chapter 3: The Rebozo: The Stereotype of the Popular Mexican Woman in Nineteenth-Century Art and Onward
Amalia Ramírez 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 María Garrido Izaguirre
Pondering Six
Lorena Ojeda Dávila and Iris Calderón Téllez
Chapter 6: 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
Chapter 7: The Triqui Huipil as a Representation of Territory: Women Immigrants between Oaxaca and San Luis Potosí
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, Michoacán, México
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