Crafting Gender ：Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean

Publication subTitle ：Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean

Author： Eli Bartra  

Publisher： Duke University Press‎

Publication year： 2003

E-ISBN: 9780822384878

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780822331704

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780822331827

Subject： J1 Overview of World Art

Keyword： Folk art -- Latin America., Folk art -- Caribbean Area., Women artists -- Latin America., Women artists -- Caribbean Area.

Language： ENG

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Description

This volume initiates a gender-based framework for analyzing the folk art of Latin America and the Caribbean. Defined here broadly as the "art of the people" and as having a primarily decorative, rather than utilitarian, purpose, folk art is not solely the province of women, but folk art by women in Latin America has received little sustained attention. Crafting Gender begins to redress this gap in scholarship. From a feminist perspective, the contributors examine not only twentieth-century and contemporary art by women, but also its production, distribution, and consumption. Exploring the roles of women as artists and consumers in specific cultural contexts, they look at a range of artistic forms across Latin America, including Panamanian molas (blouses), Andean weavings, Mexican ceramics, and Mayan hipiles (dresses).

Art historians, anthropologists, and sociologists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States discuss artwork from Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Suriname, and Puerto Rico, and many of their 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 icon

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Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Always Something New: Changing Fashions in a ‘‘Traditional Culture’’

The Emergence of the Santeras: Renewed Strength for Traditional Puerto Rican Art

Kuna Women’s Arts: Molas, Meaning, and Markets

Connections: Creative Expressions of Canelos Quichua Women

Engendering Clay: Las Ceramistas of Mata Ortiz

Women’s Folk Art in La Chamba, Colombia

The Mapuche Craftswomen

Women’s Prayers: The Aesthetics and Meaning of Female Votive Paintings in Chalma

Earth Magic: The Legacy of Teodora Blanco

Tastes, Colors, and Techniques in Embroidered Mayan Female Costumes

Contributors

Index

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