{"product_id":"crafting-gender-eli-bartra-9780822331704","title":"Crafting Gender: Women and Folk Art in Latin America and the Caribbean","description":"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. \u003ci\u003eCrafting Gender\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003emolas\u003c\/i\u003e (blouses), Andean weavings, Mexican ceramics, and Mayan \u003ci\u003ehipiles\u003c\/i\u003e (dresses).\u003cp\u003eArt 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 \u003ci\u003emestiza\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eCrafting Gender\u003c\/i\u003e sheds much-needed light on a rich body of art and the women who create it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEli Bartra\u003cbr\u003eRonald J. Duncan\u003cbr\u003eDolores Juliano\u003cbr\u003eBetty LaDuke\u003cbr\u003eLourdes Rej Patr\u003cbr\u003eSally Price\u003cbr\u003eMar僘 de Jes俍 Rodr刕uez-Shadow\u003cbr\u003eMari Lyn Salvador\u003cbr\u003eNorma Valle\u003cbr\u003eDorothea Scott Whitten\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eli Bartra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822331705\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822331704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.12w x 0.62d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2004 pg. 2031","brand":"Eli Bartra","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059877048575,"sku":"9780822331704","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_036e7532-b7c6-4bf6-a648-876a98d1fc15.jpg?v=1685060836","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crafting-gender-eli-bartra-9780822331704","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}