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Crafting Gender

Crafting Gender

Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Author: Bartra, Eli; Price, Sally; Valle, Norma; Salvador, Mari Lyn; Whitten, Dorothea Scott
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9780822331827
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822384878
  • Place of publication:  Durham , United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2003
  • Month: October
  • Pages: 256
  • DDC: 745/.082
  • Language: English
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 iconography. Integrating the 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.


Contributors
Eli Bartra
Ronald J. Duncan
Dolores Juliano
Betty LaDuke
Lourdes Rejón Patrón
Sally Price
María de Jesús Rodríguez-Shadow
Mari Lyn Salvador
Norma Valle
Dorothea Scott Whitten

  • Contents
  • 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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