Art historians, anthropologists, and sociologists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States, the contributors discuss artwork from Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, and Suriname. Many of the essays focus on indigenous artists. They highlight the complex webs of social relations from which folk art emerges. For instance, while several pieces describe the similar creative and technical processes of indigenous pottery-making communities of the Amazon and of mestiza potters in Mexico and Colombia, they also reveal the widely varying functions of the ceramics and meanings of the iconography. Integrating the many social, historical, political, geographical, and economic factors that shape folk art in Latin America and the Caribbean, Crafting Gender sheds much-needed light on a rich body of art and the women who create it
Edited by:
Eli Bartra
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 222mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 354g
ISBN: 9780822331704
ISBN 10: 0822331705
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 October 2003
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified
"Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction / Eli Bartra 1 Always Something New: Changing Fashions in a ""Traditional Culture"" (Suriname) / Sally Price 17 The Emergence of the Santeras: Renewed Strength for Traditional Puerto Rican Art (Puerto Rico) / Norma Valle 35 Kuna Women's Art: Molas, Meaning, and Markets (Panama) / Mari Lyn Salvador 47 Connections: Creative Expressions of Canelos Quichua women (Ecuador) / Dorothea Scott Whitten 73 Engendering Clay: Las Ceramistas of Mata Ortiz (Mexico) / Eli Bartra 98 Women's Folk Art in La Chamba, Colombia (Colombia) / Ronald J. Duncan 126 The Mapuche Craftswomen (Argentina) / Dolores Juliano 155 Women's Prayers: The Aesthetics and Meaning of Female Votive Paintings in Chalma (Mexico) / María J. Rodríguez-Shadow 169 Earth Magic: The Legacy of Teodora Blanco (Mexico) / Betty LaDuke 197 Tastes, Colors, and Techniques in Embroidered Mayan Female Costumes (Mexico) / Lourdes Rejón Patrón 220 Contributors 237 Index 241"
Eli Bartra is a Professor in the Department of Politics and Culture at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco in Mexico City. She is the author of numerous books in Spanish.
Reviews for Crafting Gender: Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean
Crafting Gender deftly fills a gaping hole in gender studies by providing a rich body of information on women's traditional arts. Exploring the distinctions between art, 'folk art,' and just plain work in a great variety of cultures, the authors illuminate social context, belief systems, aesthetics, and technique, expanding the field to areas not well known outside of academia and Latin America. Feminists, artists, and scholars will find much material in Eli Bartra's book with which to mold and weave their own forms. -Lucy R. Lippard, author of The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art Crafting Gender is an original collection that presents in one volume several subjects generally treated separately, integrates them with a gender perspective, and offers an approach that is truly innovative. -Marysa Navarro, coauthor of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: Restoring Women to History
