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

• Autore: Feder-Nadoff Michele Avis
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2024.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (509 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps
• Disciplina: 701.03
• Soggetto topico: Anthropology and the arts; Ethnology; Philosophical anthropology; Anthropology; Ethnology - Latin America; Culture; Anthropology of the Arts; Ethnography; Anthropological Theory; Latin American Culture
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Un-finishing Memory -- 2. Field of Corn -- 3. Forge: Hearth and Home -- 4. The Copper Fair -- 5. Person and Place: The Life-World of Maestro Jesús Pérez Ornelas -- 6. The Good Piece: An Aesthetics of Making -- 7. Aesthetics of Memory and Use -- 8. Aesthetics of Time and Space -- 9. Aesthetics of Abduction and Fragmentation -- 10. Restoring Aura: Straight from the Heart.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book 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 testifies to their presence.
• Titolo autorizzato: An Anthropology of Making in Santa Clara Del Cobre
• ISBN: 9783031366826; 9783031366819
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910864182503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II