Research Catalog

Title

Critical craft : technology, globalization, and capitalism / edited by Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber and Alicia Ory DeNicola.

Publication

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wilkinson-Weber, Clare M. (Clare Megan)
• DeNicola, Alicia Ory

Subject

• Material culture
• Artisans
• Handicraft industries
• Folk art
• Workmanship

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction: Taking Stock of Craft in Anthropology / Alicia Ory DeNicola and Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber -- Part One. Contentions: 2 Who Authors Crafts? Producing Woodcarvings and Authorship in Oaxaca, Mexico / Alanna Cant; 3. Forging Source: Considering the Craft of Computer Programming / Lance DeNicola; 4 American Beauty: The Middle Class Arts and Crafts Revival in the United States / Frances E. Mascia-Lees; 5. Designs on Craft: Negotiating Artisanal Knowledge and Identity in India / Alicia Ory DeNicola and Clare M. Wilkinson; 6. Nomadic Artisans in Central America: Building Plurilocal Communities through Craft / Villalobos Rojas -- Part Two: Conundrums: 7. Number in Craft: Situated Numbering Practices in Do-It-Yourself Sensor Systems / Dawn Nafus and Richard Beckwith; 8. Vision of Excess: Crafting Good Chocolate in France and the United States / Susan Terrio; 9. Creativity, Critique and Conservatism: Keeping Craft Alive among Moroccan Carpet Weavers and French Organic Farmers / Myriem Naji; 10. Refashioning a Global Craft Commodity Flow from the Central Philippines / B. Lynne Milgram -- Part Three. Conflicts: 11. Conflicting Ideologies of the Digital Hand: Locating the Material in the Digital Age / Daniela Rosner; 12. Materials, the Nation and the Self: Division of Labor in a Taiwanese Craft / Geoffrey Gowlland; 13. Craft, Memory, and Loss: Babban riga robes, politics, and the quest for "bigness" in Zara City, Nigeria / Elisha P. Renne; 14. Crafting Muslim Artisans: Agency and Exclusion in India's Urban Craft Communities / Mira Mohsini.

Call Number

JFE 16-3701

ISBN

• 9781472594860
• 147259486X
• 9781472594853
• 1472594851
• 9781472594877 (canceled/invalid)
• 1472594878 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781472594884 (canceled/invalid)
• 1472594886 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015027677

OCLC

915159386

Title

Critical craft : technology, globalization, and capitalism / edited by Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber and Alicia Ory DeNicola.

Publisher

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

Description

xvi, 298 pages ; 24 cm

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary

"From Oaxacan wood carvings to dessert kitchens in provincial France, Critical Craft presents thirteen ethnographies which examine what defines and makes 'craft' in a wide variety of practices from around the world. Challenging the conventional understanding of craft as a survival, a revival, or something that resists capitalism, the book turns instead to the designers, DIY enthusiasts, traditional artisans, and technical programmers who consider their labor to be craft, in order to comprehend how they make sense of it. The authors' ethnographic studies focus on the individuals and communities who claim a practice as their own, bypassing the question of craft survival to ask how and why activities termed craft are mobilized and reproduced. Moving beyond regional studies of heritage artisanship, the authors suggest that ideas of craft are by definition part of a larger cosmopolitan dialogue of power and identity. By paying careful attention to these sometimes conflicting voices, this collection shows that there is great flexibility in terms of which activities are labelled 'craft'. In fact, there are many related ideas of craft and these shape distinct engagements with materials, people, and the economy. Case studies from countries including Mexico, Nigeria, India, Taiwan, the Philippines, and France draw together evidence based on linguistics, microsociology, and participant observation to explore the shifting terrain on which those engaged in craft are operating. What emerges is a fascinating picture which shows how claims about craft are an integral part of contemporary global change"-- Provided by publisher.

Added Author

Wilkinson-Weber, Clare M. (Clare Megan), editor.

DeNicola, Alicia Ory, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-3701