An Anthropology of Making in Santa Clara Del Cobre : Presence of Absence / / Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910864182503321
• Autore: Feder-Nadoff Michele Avis
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , [2024]; ©2024
• ISBN: 9783031366826; 9783031366819
• Edizione: [First edition]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (509 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps
• Disciplina: 701.03
• Soggetti: Art and anthropology - Mexico - Santa Clara del Cobre; Handicraft - Mexico - Santa Clara del Cobre; Handicraft - Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Foreword -- Bodies of Knowledge: A Prologue -- Acknowledging -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Un-finishing Memory -- Bequests -- Excavating -- Death -- The Liminal Scrim -- Preparation -- Antecedents -- An Anthropology of Hope -- Contrariness -- Un-knowing and Un-making -- Wheel, Helm, Spokes, and Spaces -- Afterwards: The Gift -- References -- Chapter 2: Field of Corn -- Thresholds -- Telling -- References -- Chapter 3: Forge: Hearth and Home -- Old Gods, New Gods -- More Thresholds -- Copper Mediums -- Entering -- Tonal Sonority: Optic and Aural -- Rhythms of Work, Family, and Community Life -- The Central House -- Caring Vision -- Patriarchal Structure -- The Female Presence -- The Bellows -- Industrialization and Simulacra -- Plancha Aesthetics and Values -- Gajos and Gadroons -- The Mole Theory -- The Dance of Agency -- References -- Chapter 4: The Copper Fair -- Preliminaries -- Beginnings -- Competition and Cultural Performance -- Organization: Structures, Script, and Actors -- Becoming Artistic: Vestigial Materials -- The 75th Concurso del Cobre Martillado -- Prizes and Honors -- Arbitrating Authenticity -- Accouterments of Performance -- Performing Museums -- Reproductive ; and Representative Performance -- Echoes of the cofradías -- The Artisans Procession: A Passage -- The Cavalcade -- Floating Worlds -- Forging Performance -- Social Agency -- Homaging Tata Vasco -- References -- Chapter 5: Person and Place: The Life-World of Maestro Jesús Pérez Ornelas -- Life that Is Given and Life that Is Sown -- Place and Person: History and Memory -- Parents and Grandparents -- Defending the Church -- A World Protected by Trees -- Hot Chocolate, Pan, and Pátzcuaro -- A Glass of Milk -- Calzones de manta -- Barrio de San Miguel -- Don Bernardo's Forge and Apprenticeship -- The Machete -- The Compass.; The Río Bravo -- Concurso del Cobre -- Independence -- Courtship, Marriage, and Family -- Literacy -- Creating One's Mark -- Widening Constellations -- Visitors Who Came and Stayed -- The Olympic Cauldron -- Lima, Peru, Silver and Pitch -- Santa Clara Artisans Tour Mexico City -- Becoming a Grand Maestro -- The National Prize in Science and the Arts -- Illness, Tragedy, and Hubris -- Yearnings and Resolution -- A buen vivir -- Forteleben -- References -- Chapter 6: The Good Piece: An Aesthetics of Making -- A Discourse of Familiarity and Actions -- Buena, but not bonita -- Bien hecha -- Mastery of Non-mastery -- Aesthetic Technologies -- Que es única, que uno no se hace con rutina -- Que la gente le gusta -- Que no hace cada cosa día tras día -- Uniqueness, Repetition, Regeneration, and Reproduction -- La prueba es que tengo tanta herramienta -- Les queden bien derechito -- Integrity -- Solidity -- La misma pieza dice como debe salir -- Faith and Grace -- De mi mente. Hay que sacar ideas nuevas. No hacer la misma cosa cada día -- References -- Chapter 7: Aesthetics of Memory and Use -- Vessel Families -- Edges, Rims, and Borders -- Stencils -- Llamas -- Spirals -- Metaphors -- Shards -- Seeing In Between -- Duration -- To Touch and Behold -- References -- Chapter 8: Aesthetics in Time and Space -- Necessary Aesthetics -- Aesthetics Are Affordances -- Beholding -- Arts of Space and Arts of Time -- Suppression and Accumulation -- Invisible Motifs -- References -- Chapter 9: Aesthetics of Abduction and Fragmentation -- Artisan Agency as Synecdoche -- Group I. Artisans and Institutions -- Abduction of Style -- Communities of Style -- Abduction of Artisan Images -- Abduction of the Woman Artisan -- Abducting Authorship -- Authenticity and Fetishization -- Group II. Artisans and Designers -- Abduction and Skill -- Group III. Artisans and Artists.; Abducting Ready-Mades -- Group IV. Artisans and Merchants -- Abductions of Arts and Crafts -- Group V. Artisan Communities and Artists -- Abducting Santa Clara as a Ready-Made -- Exchange Relations -- References -- Chapter 10: Restoring Aura: Straight from the Heart -- Passion and Pride -- Providence -- The Baptism of Jesús Emanuel -- Reciprocity -- Surrendering -- Bodies and Persons: Faces and Masks -- El Cuiripu -- The Chueca -- Heart -- Nacheleben -- Forteleben -- References -- Curriculum Vitae: Maestro Felipe (Jesús)1 Pérez Ornelas -- Santa Clara del Cobre Coppersmithing Glossary -- Spanish Glossary1 -- References -- Video -- Newspaper Articles -- Index.