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

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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 b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Bartra, Eli (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Lateinamerika
Frau
Kunsthandwerk
Women artists.
Folk art.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES > Folkcrafts.
ART > Folk & Outsider Art.
Femmes artistes > Caraïbes (Region)
Femmes artistes > Amerique latine.
Art populaire > Caraïbes (Region)
Art populaire > Amerique latine.
Women artists > Caribbean Area.
Women artists > Latin America.
Folk art > Caribbean Area.
Folk art > Latin America.
Latin America.
Caribbean Area.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Always something new : changing fashions in a "traditional culture" / Sally Price (Suriname)
  • The emergence of the santeras : renewed strength for 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, Colombia / Ronald J. Duncan (Colombia).
  • The Mapuche craftswomen / Dolores Juliano (Argentina)
  • Women's prayers : the aesthetics and meanings of female votive paintings in Chalma / María J. Rodríguez-Shadow (Mexico)
  • Earth magic : the legacy of Teodora Blanco / Betty Laduke (Mexico)
  • Tastes, colors, and techniques in embroidered Mayan female costumes / Lourdes Rejón Patrón (Mexico).

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