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245	0	0	_aCrafting gender _b: women and folk art in Latin America and the Caribbean _c/ edited by Eli Bartra
260			_aDurham _b: Duke University Press _c, 2003
300			_a244 p. _b: illus. _c; 23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505	0		_aAlways something new : changing fashions in a "traditional culture" / Sally Price (Suriname) -- The emergence of the santeras strengthens traditional Puerto Rican art / Norma Valle (Puerto Rico) -- Kuna women's arts : molas, meaning and markets / Mari Lyn Salvador (Panama) -- Connections : creative expressions of canelos quichua women / Dorothea Scott Whitten (Ecuador) -- Engendering clay : women potters of Mata Ortiz / Eli Bartra (Mexico) -- Women's folk art in la chamba / Ronald J. Duncan (Colombia) --
505	0		_aThe Mapuche craftswomen / Dolores Juliano (Argentina) -- Women's prayers : the aesthetics and meanings of female votive paintings in Chalma / María de Jesús Rodríguez-Shadow (Mexico) -- Earth magic : the legacy of Teodora Blanco / Betty Laduke (Mexico) -- Tastes, colors, and techniques of embroidery in the clothing of Mayan women / Lourdes Rejón Patrón (Mexico).
520			_aThis 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.
650		0	_aFolk Art _z--Latin America
650		0	_aFolk Art _z--Caribbean area
650			_aWomen artists _z-Latin America
700	1		_aBartra, Eli
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