This 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. Crafting Gender 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 molas (blouses),
Andean weavings, Mexican ceramics, and Mayan hipiles (dresses).Art
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 mestiza 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, Crafting Gender
sheds much-needed light on a rich body of art and the women who
create it. Contributors Eli Bartra Ronald J. Duncan Dolores Juliano
Betty LaDuke Lourdes Rejón Patrón Sally Price MarÃa de Jesús
RodrÃguez-Shadow Mari Lyn Salvador Norma Valle Dorothea Scott
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