00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217612580232 Buklod 20170911125849.0 a r |||| u| ta 170911s2016 xx d r |||| u| 9781472594853 (paperback) (iLib)UPD-00344411373 CAL-12893 C & E Php1,618.20 Prof. Clod Yambao DAS DLC DCAL rda eng DMLUC GN 406 C75 2016 Critical craft technology, globalization, and capitalism edited by Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber and Alicia Ory DeNicola. London Bloomsbury Academic 2016. xvi, 298 pages illustrations 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier 1: Introduction / Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber, Alicia Ory DeNicola -- Section One: Claims -- 2: Who authors crafts? producing woodcarvings and authorship in Oaxaca, Mexico / Alanna Cant -- 3: Number in craft: situated numbering practices in do-it-yourself sensor systems / Richard Beckwith -- 4: Arts and crafts as a lived aesthetic / Fran Mascia-Lees -- 5: Designs on craft: negotiating artisanal knowledge and identity in India / Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber, Alicia Ory DeNicola -- 6: Nomadic artisans in Central America: building plurilocal communities through craft / Villalobos Rojas -- Section Two: Conundrums -- 7. We have never been analog: situating the study of digital crafts / Lane DeNicola -- 8: Crafting good chocolate in France and the US / 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 -- Section Three: Conflicts -- 11: Modern craft: locating the material in a digital age / Daniela Rosner -- 12: Materials, the nation and the self: division of labor in a Taiwanese craft / Geoffrey Gowlland -- 13: The weight of tradition: crafting robes, power and politics in Nigeria's Zaria City / Elisha Renne -- 14: Crafting Muslim artisans: agency and exclusion in India's urban craft communities / Mira Mohsini -- Index. "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. Material culture. Artisans. Handicraft industries. Folk art. Workmanship. Wilkinson-Weber, Clare M. editor. DeNicola, Alicia Ory editor. FO UPD DCAL GN 406 C75 2016 UPD DCFA GN 406 C75 2016 Book