Perspectives on Work, Home, and Identity From Artisans in Telangana

Conversations Around Craft
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-12515-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 311 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 538 g

Providing an ethnographic account of the everyday life of a household of artisans in the Telangana state of southern India, Chandan Bose engages with craft practice beyond the material (in this case, the region's characteristic murals, narrative cloth scrolls, and ritual masks and figurines). In situating the voice of the artisans themselves as the central focus of study, simultaneous and juxtaposing histories of craft practice emerge, through which artisans assemble narratives about work, home, and identity through multiple lenses. These perspectives include: the language artisans use to articulate their experience of materials, materiality, and the physical process of making; the shared and collective memory of practitioners through which they recount the genealogy of the practice; the everyday life of the household and its kinship practices, given the integration of the studio-space and the home-space; the negotiations between practitioners and the nation-state over matters of patronage; and the capacities of artisans to both conform to and affect the practices of the neo-liberal market.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bose, Chandan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.-Chapter 2: Craft: Doing, Telling, Writing - Part 1.-Chapter 3: Craft: Doing, Telling, Writing - Part 2.-Chapter 4: 'Goddess' and 'King,' 'Migration' and 'Boon': Artists and Their Histories.-Chapter 5: Craft-Through-Relatedness; Relatedness-Through-Craft.-Chapter 6. Showing, Making and Selling for the Market.-Chapter 7: Desire for the Nation-State.-Chapter 8: Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Chandan Bose is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India. He researches and publishes on material practices and knowledge systems amongst artisanal communities in India.