Author: Marshall H. Saville
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846004219
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1925.

Author: Marshall Howard Saville
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Category : Indian wood-carving
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Author: Marshall Howard Saville
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Author: Michael Chibnik
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292782667
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Since the mid-1980s, whimsical, brightly colored wood carvings from the Mexican state of Oaxaca have found their way into gift shops and private homes across the United States and Europe, as Western consumers seek to connect with the authenticity and tradition represented by indigenous folk arts. Ironically, however, the Oaxacan wood carvings are not a traditional folk art. Invented in the mid-twentieth century by non-Indian Mexican artisans for the tourist market, their appeal flows as much from intercultural miscommunication as from their intrinsic artistic merit. In this beautifully illustrated book, Michael Chibnik offers the first in-depth look at the international trade in Oaxacan wood carvings, including their history, production, marketing, and cultural representations. Drawing on interviews he conducted in the carving communities and among wholesalers, retailers, and consumers, he follows the entire production and consumption cycle, from the harvesting of copal wood to the final purchase of the finished piece. Along the way, he describes how and why this "invented tradition" has been promoted as a "Zapotec Indian" craft and explores its similarities with other local crafts with longer histories. He also fully discusses the effects on local communities of participating in the global market, concluding that the trade in Oaxacan wood carvings is an almost paradigmatic case study of globalization.

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Category : Indians of Central America
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Author: Charles L. Briggs
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Category : Art and society
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: Shepard Barbash
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811802505
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Examines the work of traditional Mexican woodcarvers

Author: Marshall Howard Saville
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Category : Indians of Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Marshall Howard Saville
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Category : Fuegians
Languages : en
Pages : 538

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Author: Susan Toby Evans
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136801855
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 992

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This is the first comprehensive, one-volume encyclopedia in English devoted to pre-Columbian archaeology of the Mesoamerican culture area. In more than 500 articles by the major experts in the field, this work brings the most recent scholarship to an examination of regional environments and their cultural evolution. Entries range from the familiar