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Critical Craft : Technology, Globalization, and Capitalism.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (315 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781472594877
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.4/5
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Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Taking Stock of Craft in Anthropology -- PART ONE Contentions -- 2 Who Authors Crafts? Producing Woodcarvings and Authorship in Oaxaca, Mexico -- 3 Forging Source: Considering the Craft of Computer Programming -- 4 American Beauty: The Middle Class Arts and Crafts Revival in the United States -- 5 Designs on Craft: Negotiating Artisanal Knowledge and Identity in India -- 6 Nomadic Artisans in Central America: Building Plurilocal Communities through Craft -- PART TWO Conundrums -- 7 Number in Craft: Situated Numbering Practices in Do-It-Yourself Sensor Systems -- 8 Visions of Excess: Crafting Good Chocolate in France and the United States -- 9 Creativity and Tradition: Keeping Craft Alive among Moroccan Carpet Weavers and French Organic Farmers -- 10 Refashioning a Global Craft Commodity Flow from Aklan, Central Philippines -- PART THREE Conflicts -- 11 Conflicting Ideologies of the Digital Hand: Locating the Material in a Digital Age -- 12 Materials, the Nation and the Self: Division of Labor in a Taiwanese Craft -- 13 Craft, Memory, and Loss: Babban riga robes, politics, and the quest for "bigness" in Zaria City, Nigeria -- 14 Crafting Muslim Artisans: Agency and Exclusion in India's Urban Crafts Communities -- Notes -- References -- 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.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Taking Stock of Craft in Anthropology -- PART ONE Contentions -- 2 Who Authors Crafts? Producing Woodcarvings and Authorship in Oaxaca, Mexico -- 3 Forging Source: Considering the Craft of Computer Programming -- 4 American Beauty: The Middle Class Arts and Crafts Revival in the United States -- 5 Designs on Craft: Negotiating Artisanal Knowledge and Identity in India -- 6 Nomadic Artisans in Central America: Building Plurilocal Communities through Craft -- PART TWO Conundrums -- 7 Number in Craft: Situated Numbering Practices in Do-It-Yourself Sensor Systems -- 8 Visions of Excess: Crafting Good Chocolate in France and the United States -- 9 Creativity and Tradition: Keeping Craft Alive among Moroccan Carpet Weavers and French Organic Farmers -- 10 Refashioning a Global Craft Commodity Flow from Aklan, Central Philippines -- PART THREE Conflicts -- 11 Conflicting Ideologies of the Digital Hand: Locating the Material in a Digital Age -- 12 Materials, the Nation and the Self: Division of Labor in a Taiwanese Craft -- 13 Craft, Memory, and Loss: Babban riga robes, politics, and the quest for "bigness" in Zaria City, Nigeria -- 14 Crafting Muslim Artisans: Agency and Exclusion in India's Urban Crafts Communities -- Notes -- References -- 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.

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