Performing Craft in Mexico

Artisans, Aesthetics, and the Power of Translation
Herausgeber: Avis Feder-Nadoff, Michele

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how Mexican artisans and diverse actors participate in translations of aesthetics, politics, and history through the field of craft.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 691g
• ISBN-13: 9781793639974
• ISBN-10: 1793639973
• Artikelnr.: 62919861

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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