Encountering Craft (eBook, ePUB)

Methodological Approaches from Anthropology, Art History, and Design
Redaktion: Bose, Chandan; Mohsini, Mira

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book reflects on the methodological challenges and possibilities encountered when researching practices that have been historically defined and classified as 'craft.'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000864311
• Artikelnr.: 68131636

Autorenporträt

Chandan Bose is a cultural anthropologist who works on craft production in contemporary India. He is Assistant Professor at the Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad. Mira Mohsini (she/her) is a trained cultural anthropologist. She has conducted ethnographic research in India on urban craft economies, with a focus on how Muslim artisans adapt, survive, and create in the midst of multiple intersecting forms of marginalization.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Chandan Bose and Mira Mohsini
2. Critical Cloth: The Contemporary Toile de Jouy Print as Postcolonial
Critique in Art and Design
Stephanie Sabo
3. On crafting history in a time without craftiness
Sarah Teasley
4. Narrating indigo: Telling and re-telling subjectivities of craft in
India
Aarti Kawlra
5. Disentangling history and practice in the weaving and dyeing course at
Kyoto City University of Arts
Elena Cinelli
6. Prolegomena for World War I craft therapy for American injured soldiers
and Reconstruction Aides
Jennifer Way
7. Theorising Indigenous art practice, practicing Indigenous art theories:
M¿ori weaving as research methodology
Hinekura Smith
8. Encountering gendered sociality on field: People and objects in Kashmir
Nikita Kaul
9. "Writing Practices" and Writing "Practices": Observation and struggle in
fieldnotes about artisanal work
Alanna Cant
10. Coda
Chandan Bose and Mira Mohsini