Crafting in the World Materiality in the Making /

This volume expands understandings of crafting practices, which in the past was the major relational interaction between the social agency of materials, technology, and people, in co-creating an emergent ever-changing world. The chapters discuss different ways that crafting in the present is useful...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Burke, Clare (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Spencer-Wood, Suzanne M. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Έκδοση:1st ed. 2019.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Introduction
  • Section I: Reconstructing ancient craft practice through archaeology and experiment
  • Ch 1. Made to Remake the World: Bronze-Age Tools and the idea of Craft
  • Ch 2. Looking over the shoulder of the Bronze Age metalsmith: Using wear analysis to understand metalsmithing practices
  • Ch 3. Grasping at Threads - a Discussion on Archaeology and the Study of Craft
  • Section II: Reconceptualizing Crafting
  • Ch 4. Crafting History: How the World is Made. The case of Islamic archaeology
  • Ch 5. Crafting a progressive nostalgia: radical embroidery as a negotiation of the past into a positive future
  • Ch 6. Beauty and Grace in making Artifacts: An Anthropological Gaze upon Crafting in the World
  • Section III: Teaching and Experiencing Crafts
  • Ch 7. The Temporal and Spatial Diffusion of the Sloyd Educational Crafting Tradition Across the Landscape of Western Culture
  • Ch 8. Hold Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand: learning the world through place-based craft
  • Ch 9. Crafts and Living History: Old Sturbridge Village
  • Section IV: The Meanings of Crafting in Modern Societies
  • Ch 10. Hands to the Potter's Wheel: A case of technological change in pottery production in Pomaire, Chile
  • Ch 11. "El Proyecto Paraguas" (The Umbrella Project): Craft knowledge as tactical tool in marginalized communities in Argentina
  • Ch 12. Etsy as a global community of practice?
  • Ch 13. Commentary/conclusion.