| 期刊全称 | An Anthropology of Making in Santa Clara del Cobre | | 期刊简称 | Presence of Absence | | 影响因子2023 | Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | Based on twenty years of apprenticeship-based fieldwork with artisans in the Santa Clara community.Provides a distinct application of performance theory to the analysis of craft and skilled making.Clo | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | .This book, introduced with a Foreword by Tim Ingold, 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 testi | | Pindex | Book 2024 |
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