{"product_id":"crafting-gender-women-and-folk-art-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-9780822331704","title":"Crafting Gender: Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Eli Bartra\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Folk \u0026amp; Outsider Art\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003ci\u003eCrafting Gender\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003emolas\u003c\/i\u003e (blouses), Andean weavings, Mexican ceramics, and Mayan \u003ci\u003ehipiles\u003c\/i\u003e (dresses).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArt 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 \u003ci\u003emestiza\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eCrafting Gender\u003c\/i\u003e sheds much-needed light on a rich body of art and the women who create it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEli Bartra\u003cbr\u003eRonald J. Duncan\u003cbr\u003eDolores Juliano\u003cbr\u003eBetty LaDuke\u003cbr\u003eLourdes Rej�n Patr�n\u003cbr\u003eSally Price\u003cbr\u003eMar�a de Jes�s Rodr�guez-Shadow\u003cbr\u003eMari Lyn Salvador\u003cbr\u003eNorma Valle\u003cbr\u003eDorothea Scott Whitten\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47589307678871,"sku":"9780822331704","price":3652.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780822331704.webp?v=1774968869","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/crafting-gender-women-and-folk-art-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-9780822331704","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}