Eli Bartra

Crafting Gender

Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean
Herausgeber: Bartra, Eli

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Produktbeschreibung

""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"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 155mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780822331704
• ISBN-10: 0822331705
• Artikelnr.: 21310286

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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