This book offers a nuanced reflection on the meaning of making and
artisan agency, demonstrating how copper-smithing produces not only
objects, but also lives, worlds, meanings, and social
transformation. Through long-term ethnography, grounded in
apprenticeship to master coppersmith Jesús Pérez Ornelas,
Feder-Nadoff’s intimate description of communal and artisanal
life in Santa Clara del Cobre, Michoacán, México provides a
critical reappraisal of aesthetics and compelling ways to think
about how aura and agency are produced. By mapping flows and
frictions between persons, places, and things, this study closes
the gap between economic and socio-political analysis of craft, on
the one hand, and aesthetic, material, and phenomenological studies
of making, on the other. Although craft historically plays a
prominent national, even ideological role in Mexico, as in many
countries, most artisans ironically remain absent, often living in
marginalized, precarious circumstances. By tracing the cycles of
life, death, and afterlife, of these maker-protagonists, their
bodies of knowledge, skilled performances, and objects, this poetic
monograph testifies to their presence.
General
Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan
|
Country of origin: |
Switzerland |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff
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Dimensions: |
210 x 148mm (L x W) |
Edition: |
1st ed. 2023 |
ISBN-13: |
978-3-03-136681-9 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
3-03-136681-6 |
Barcode: |
9783031366819 |
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