| Description |
1 online resource (183 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Encountering Craft -- Encountering Geography and Place -- Encountering Gender -- Encountering (The Messiness Of) Representation -- Decolonizing Methods in Craft Research -- Structure of Volume -- References -- 2 Critical Cloth: The Contemporary Toile De Jouy Print as Postcolonial Critique in Art and Design -- I -- II -- III -- Notes -- References -- 3 On Crafting History in a Time Without Craftiness -- Introduction |
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A Proposal for Situated Practice in the History of Craft, Design and Making -- Resituating Situated Practice -- Notes -- References -- 4 Narrating Indigo: Telling and Re-Telling Subjectivities of Craft in India -- Introduction -- The Embodied Experience of Craft and Storytelling -- A Global Commodity: Multiplicity of Ambiguities and Anxieties -- Indigo as Object of "Taste" for Swadeshi -- Indigo as Object-Lesson in Freedom From Oppression -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 5 Disentangling History and Practice in the Weaving and Dyeing Course at Kyoto City University of Arts |
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Historical Research Methodologies -- Participatory Fieldwork and Interviews -- Object Analysis -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 6 Prolegomena for World War I Craft Therapy for American Injured Soldiers and Reconstruction Aides -- Introduction -- Historiography of Wellness and Healing -- Historiography of Social Dimensions of Making Craft -- The Maker in Craft History -- The Maker in a Social Context -- Social Relationships of Healing: An Aesthetics of Care -- Social Relationships of Healing: Ableism and Disability -- Social Relationships of Healing: Critical Race Theories and Connection |
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Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7 Theorising Indigenous Art Practice, Practicing Indigenous Art Theories: Maori Weaving as Research Methodology -- Introduction -- Taking Up the Weaving Threads -- Laying Bare My Threads -- Who I Am Comes Before What I Do -- (Re)claiming Methodology as a Decolonising Research Activity -- Claiming the Courage to Theorise Art Practice as Methodology -- Whatuora -- Researching Living as Maori Women Through Weaving Maori Cloaks -- Theorising a Connection Between Whatu Terminology and Maori Maternity -- Weaving the Threads -- Whatu Research Methods |
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Whatuora Methodology as Teacher -- Our Theoreticians Walk Amongst Us -- Cloaked in My Mother's Aspirations -- Summary -- Tying Off Some Threads and Picking Up Others -- References -- 8 Encountering Gendered Sociality On Field: People and Objects in Kashmir -- Putting Kashmir in Context: Insurgency and Crafts -- Fieldwork in Kashmir: Militarisation and a Misplaced Idea of Home -- Making a Methodological Shift and Finding Solace in Objects -- People and Objects in a Karkhana -- Tools: Disciplining Bodies and the Making of Gendered Subjects |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Raw Material: Disciplining the Mind and Surrendering to Allah's Will |
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Folk art -- Research
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Decorative arts -- Research
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Handicraft -- Research
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Design -- Research
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Ethnic art -- Research
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Material culture -- Research
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Design -- Research.
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Folk art -- Research.
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Handicraft -- Research.
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Material culture -- Research.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mohsini, Mira
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| ISBN |
9781000864304 |
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1000864308 |
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