Crafting in the World - Materiality in the Making (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

This volume expands understandings of crafting practices, which in the past was the major relational interaction between the social agency of materials, technology, and people, in co-creating an emergent ever-changing world. The chapters discuss different ways that crafting in the present is useful in understanding crafting experiences and methods in the past, including experiments to reproduce ancient excavated objects, historical accounts of crafting methods and experiences, craft revivals, and teaching historical crafts at museums and schools. Crafting in the World is unique in the diversity of its theoretical and multidisciplinary approaches to researching crafting, not just as a set of techniques for producing functional objects, but as social practices and technical choices embodying cultural ideas, knowledge, and multiple interwoven social networks. Crafting expresses and constitutes mental schemas, identities, ideologies, and cultures. The multiple meanings and significances of crafting are explored from a great variety of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, archaeology, sociology, education, psychology, women's studies, and ethnic studies. This book provides a deep temporal range and a global geographical scope, with case studies ranging from Europe, Africa, and Asia to the Americas and a global internet website for selling home crafted items.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	November 2018
First published:	2019
Editors:	Clare Burke • Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	295
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-65087-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Museums & museology Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Humanities > Archaeology > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	3-319-65087-4
Barcode:	9783319650876

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