Craft Matters: Artisans, Development and the Indian Nation
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd [573945], New Delhi, India.
Contents List of pictures. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Crafting the subject craft producers craft objects and craft. 2. People place life. 3. In the house. 4. The work of weaving. 5. Uneasy balances. 6. Production and representation. 7. Talking about mats. 8. Selling gifts mats in the market. 9. Technological matters. 10. Conclusion. Appendix Newspaper and other articles. Bibliography. Index. Craft Matters explores the ways in which traditional Indian craft producers engage with the efforts of governmental and non governmental agencies to preserve promote and develop their crafts. Based on long term ethnographic fieldwork among the Labbai Muslim mat weavers of Pattamadai town in South India this anthropological study explores the ways in which the famous pattu pai or high quality silk like mats of Pattamadai became classified as traditional craft objects and what this classification has meant to the weavers who are now simultaneously national heroes and (paradoxically) marginalised and suspect Muslims. Handwoven by poor Muslims and bought by elite Tamil Hindus for use in marriage ceremonies and as craft objects by other affluent sections of society the mats are made within the literature to embody liberal ideals of harmony between Hindus and Muslims rural poor and urban elites the past and the present and tradition and modernity. The mats make their weavers accepted and celebrated within the wider nation allowing them to act on the national stage. However this is constantly constrained by the very ways in which craft is conceptualised in India. This book will be of interest to anthropologists concerned with the agency of objects the production of persons through things and the workings of development on the ground. Written in a lively and jargon free style it will also be of interest to scholars of development development practitioners and all those fascinated by craft. 294 pp.

Von Händler/Antiquariat, Books from India or Oscar Publications [54843], Delhi, DEL, India.
Craft Matters is an anthropological exploration of how manufactures of handmade or craft objects in India have turned into symbols of the nation, and because of that, into objects of development, as well as how they engage with the efforts of governmental and non-governmental agencies to preserve, promote and develop their crafts. Based on ethnographic fieldwork over a period of six years in Pattamadai town in South India, the book explores the ways in which the weavers negotiate both their valorized status as traditional artisans, and their suspect status as poor, marginalized Muslims, to create a space for themselves within the Indian nation and beyond. 316 Verify ISBN for International Edition; year of publication 2009 8125036822.

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Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, प्लस शिपिंग, शिपिंग क्षेत्र: DOM.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, More Books, FL, MIAMI, [RE:3].
Hardcover.