Titlebook: An Anthropology of Making in Santa Clara del Cobre; Presence of Absence Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff Book 2024 The Editor(s) (if applicable) a

粗鄙的人

招募

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-34066-0 beauty. Maestro Jesús defined the good copper piece as one that is “well-made,” not “beautiful.” Sure, firm hammering and even strokes are required to create the “perfect” piece, free of blemishes, solidly formed, balanced, stable, symmetrical, and clearly articulated. This technical system require

剥削

口诀法

枯燥

Siegfried Gräff,Leopold Küpferlechanges, production chains, and other relationships are often purposefully made opaque, invisible. To trace this consumption and abduction of maker’s agency and copper things, several scenarios are presented here occurring between artisans, and between artisans and institutions, designers, collector

Range-Of-Motion

Siegfried Gräff,Leopold Küpferleh to make space for the seedlings he had planted, giving them room to grow until harvest. Maestro Jesús’ life and work—his agency—is seen unfinished through the continuity provided by a homage exhibition of his work, the baptism of a new grandson and the taking up of his staff by his youngest son. T

Spinal-Tap

Grating

Field of Corn,rsmith, Maestro Pérez Ornelas, my primary mentor-teacher. I bring the reader into the ecological and performative landscape of Santa Clara to meet the artisans whose stories form the narrative backbone of this anthropological study of making and artisan agency. The narration weaves back and forth, f

Postulate

Forge: Hearth and Home, aesthetic re-productive and co-productive performance. This hive of activity is a porous space where rhythms of life and work intertwine. Within its cultivating atmosphere, artisans and materials perform and are formed. Artisan skill is always emergent, practiced, but never obtained, constantly shi

Adornment

The Copper Fair,s assert agency, negotiate politics, and cultivate marketplaces. These performances recalibrate self-representation, community coherence, identity, and class assertion. As an official “enchanted village” in the “Tata Vasco” tourist route, Santa Clara’s copper fair events also perform important econo