Performing Craft in Mexico

Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff

doi:10.5771/9781793639981

Summary

Performing Craft in Mexico examines how Mexican artisans and diverse actors perform as translators of aesthetics, politics, and history through the field of craft. The contributors build from historical and ethnographic archives and direct engagement with makers to reassemble an expanded vision of artisanal production and the complicated classifications that surround Mexican popular art-making—from the Anglo term “craft” to the Latin term “artesanía.” This book also homages Dr. Janet Brody Esser’s research on the Blackmen masquerades of Michoacán, exploring African history and presence in Mexico. The contributors provide wide-ranging insight into the agency, history, and contemporary world of Mexican makers and other entangled actors in the field of craft.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-3997-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-3998-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 304
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledging No access
3. 1. Notes No access
  2. References No access
4. An Appreciation of Dr. Janet B. Esser No access
5. 1. Pondering Things No access
  2. Notes No access
  3. References No access
1. Translating Things No access
2. Making Things Messy No access
3. Moving Things Around: Disobedience No access
4. 1. Crafting (Colonial) Utopias No access
  2. Un-patching No access
5. 1. Making as Worlding No access
6. Assembling Fuerza No access
7. Notes No access
8. References No access
1. Pondering Two No access
2. 1. Introduction No access
  2. The Mexican Revolution, a New Vision Toward the Indigenous No access
  3. 1. Between Tradition and Modernity No access
  4. Crafts, a Symbol of the Nation and of Regional Identity No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Epilogue No access
  7. References No access
3. Pondering Three No access
4. 1. Decline No access
  2. The New in Mexican Identity No access
  3. The Legitimate and Beautiful Daughter of Mexico No access
  4. Visual Narratives of Stereotypes, Old and New: From Lithography to Instagram No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. References No access
5. Pondering Four No access
6. 1. Introduction No access
  2. The “Traditional Devils of Teloloapan, Guerrero” No access
  3. Making No access
  4. Performing No access
  5. Afterlife No access
  6. Notes No access
  7. References No access
7. Pondering Five No access
8. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Public Policies and the Agency of Patrons No access
  3. 1. Artistic Agency No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
  6. References No access
9. 1. The Conception of Artesanía among the P’Urhépecha and How They Define Their Products No access
  2. Art, Artesanía, and Arte Popular No access
  3. On Translation No access
10. 1. Characterization of the Region No access
  2. Productive Activities and Artesanías No access
  3. 1. Iris Calderón of Santiago Azajo No access
    2. Jazmín Luciano of Santa Fe de la Laguna No access
  4. 1. Consuelo Tapia of Santiago Azajo No access
    2. María de los Ángeles Téllez of Santiago Azajo No access
    3. Yadhira Téllez of Santiago Azajo No access
  5. Innovation in Textile Handcrafts: Etnoaesthetic, Hybridization, and Cultural Control No access
  6. Female Empowerment through the Making and Selling of Textile Handcrafts No access
  7. Final Thoughts No access
  8. Notes No access
  9. References No access
11. Pondering Seven No access
12. 1. Introduction No access
  2. A Brief Historical Context of the Huipil No access
  3. The Women Triqui in San Luis Potosí No access
  4. The Huipil in the Imaginary and the Collective Feminine Representations No access
  5. Dreams of the Loom No access
  6. The Huipil in the Life of Women No access
  7. Final Reflections No access
  8. Notes No access
  9. References No access
1. 1. Notes No access
2. 1. References No access
  2. ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION No access
  3. 1. 1. Focus of the Study No access
      2. Limitations of the study No access
  4. 1. Nature of the Masquerades No access
  5. The Making and Preservation of Masks No access
  6. III. MASKS OF THE BLACKMEN No access
  7. 1. 1. Tarascan Blackman dances No access
      2. Nomenclature No access
      3. Masks and accouterments No access
  8. 1. The community No access
    2. The dance No access
  9. Blackmen of Zacán No access
  10. Blackmen of San Juan Parangaricutiro19 No access
  11. 1. San Felipe de los Herreras No access
    2. Charapán24 No access
    3. Sevina, Nahuatzen, Aranza, and Paricutin No access
  12. Blackmen of Uruapán No access
  13. 1. 1. The dance No access
  14. Black Africans and the Trata in Colonial Mexico No access
  15. The African Presence in Mexico No access
  16. 1. Black slavery in Spain No access
  17. Tribal Origins of Black Slaves in Mexico Ladino No access
  18. Arrival of Blacks in the New World No access
  19. Black Societies in the New World No access
  20. City and Town Dwelling Blacks in the Viceregal Period No access
  21. 1. Luxury slaves and artisans No access
    2. Blacksmiths No access
    3. Black overseers No access
    4. Black miners No access
    5. Black guards at textile mills No access
    6. Black renegades, vagabonds, and soldiers No access
    7. Black cowboys No access
    8. Blacks as plantation workers No access
    9. Muleteers and foot peddlers No access
  22. 1. Costa Chica, Guerrero No access
    2. Vera Cruz No access
    3. Zapotec Blackmen No access
    4. Some Representations of Black Africans in Europe No access
  23. 1. Central Mexico No access
    2. The Mayan region No access
    3. Pre-Conquest Tarascan Blackmen No access
  24. Conclusions No access
  25. V. CONCLUSIONS No access
  26. Notes No access
  27. Esser Thesis References No access
3. 1. Note No access
  2. References No access
4. Chapter 11: Masks in Performance: Selected Fieldwork Photographs Janet B. Esser No access
Biographical Synthesis Dr. Janet B. Esser No access Pages 273 - 274
1. Books and Monographs No access
2. Chapters No access
3. Articles No access
Glossary No access Pages 279 - 290
List of Figures No access Pages 291 - 292
Index No access Pages 293 - 300
About the Contributors No access Pages 301 - 304