Encountering craft : methodological approaches from anthropology, art history, and design /

"This book reflects on the methodological challenges and possibilities encountered when researching practices that have been historically defined and classified as 'craft.' It fosters an understanding of how methodology, across disciplines, contributes to analytical frameworks within...

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Other Authors: Bose, Chandan (Editor), Mohsini, Mira (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction / Chandan Bose and Mira Mohsini
  • 2. Critical cloth: The contemporary Toile de Jouy print as postcolonial critique in art and design / Stephanie Sabo
  • 3. On crafting history in a time without craftiness / Sarah Teasley
  • 4. Narrating indigo: Telling and re-telling subjectivities of craft in India / Aarti Kawlra
  • 5. Disentangling history and practice in the weaving and dyeing course at Kyoto City University of Arts / Elena Cinelli
  • 6. Prolegomena for World War I craft therapy for American injured soldiers and Reconstruction Aides / Jennifer Way
  • 7. Theorising Indigenous art practice, practicing Indigenous art theories: Māori weaving as research methodology / Hinekura Smith
  • 8. Encountering gendered sociality on field: People and objects in Kashmir / Nikita Kaul
  • 9. 'Writing Practices' and Writing 'Practices': Observation and struggle in fieldnotes about artisanal work / Alanna Cant
  • 10. Coda / Chandan Bose and Mira Mohsini.