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Critical Craft Critical Craft Technology, Globalization, and Capitalism EDITED BY CLARE M. WILKINSON-WEBER AND ALICIA ORY DENICOLA Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Bloomsbury Academic An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square 1385 Broadway London New York WC1B 3DP NY 10018 UK USA www.bloomsbury.com BLOOMSBURY and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published 2016 © Selection and Editorial Material: Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber and Alicia Ory DeNicola, 2016 © Individual Chapters: Their Authors, 2016 Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber and Alicia Ory DeNicola have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. No responsibility for loss caused to any individual or organization acting on or refraining from action as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by Bloomsbury or the author. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: HB: 978-1-4725-9486-0 PB: 978-1-4725-9485-3 ePDF: 978-1-4725-9487-7 ePub: 978-1-4725-9488-4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Typeset by Fakenham Prepress Solutions, Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 8NN Contents List of Figures ix List of Contributors xi Acknowledgments xv 1 Introduction: Taking Stock of Craft in Anthropology 1 Alicia Ory DeNicola and Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber PART ONE Contentions 17 2 Who Authors Crafts? Producing Woodcarvings and Authorship in Oaxaca, Mexico 19 Alanna Cant 3 Forging Source: Considering the Craft of Computer Programming 35 Lane DeNicola 4 American Beauty: The Middle Class Arts and Crafts Revival in the United States 57 Frances E. Mascia-Lees 5 Designs on Craft: Negotiating Artisanal Knowledge and Identity in India 79 Alicia Ory DeNicola and Clare M. Wilkinson-Weber vi CONTENTS 6 Nomadic Artisans in Central America: Building Plurilocal Communities through Craft 99 Millaray Villalobos PART TWO Conundrums 113 7 Number in Craft: Situated Numbering Practices in Do-It-Yourself Sensor Systems 115 Dawn Nafus and Richard Beckwith 8 Visions of Excess: Crafting Good Chocolate in France and the United States 135 Susan Terrio 9 Creativity and Tradition: Keeping Craft Alive among Moroccan Carpet Weavers and French Organic Farmers 153 Myriem Naji 10 Refashioning a Global Craft Commodity Flow from Aklan, Central Philippines 169 B. Lynne Milgram PART THREE Conflicts 187 11 Conflicting Ideologies of the Digital Hand: Locating the Material in a Digital Age 189 Daniela Rosner 12 Materials, the Nation and the Self: Division of Labor in a Taiwanese Craft 199 Geoffrey Gowlland CONTENTS vii 13 Craft, Memory, and Loss: Babban riga robes, politics, and the quest for “bigness” in Zaria City, Nigeria 217 Elisha P. Renne 14 Crafting Muslim Artisans: Agency and Exclusion in India’s Urban Crafts Communities 239 Mira Mohsini Notes 259 References 271 Index 295 List of Figures 1 A fully functional computer keyboard made from an old IBM model M keyboard and parts from an old Continental Typewriter 50 2 Handmade Craftsman Lantern and Stickley Reproduction Table and Chairs 66 3 Arts and Crafts Objects, Handmade by GPI Craftspeople 69 4 Traditional hand printing in Bagru 83 5 Tailors working under the direction of the master cutter in a workshop making film costumes in Mumbai 95 6 Colombian nomadic artisan parche, Tamarindo, Costa Rica 105 7 Global popular culture: iconic Argentinian Che Guevara on a tagua pipe from Ecuador, sold in Bocas del Toro, Panama 108 8 DIY home energy monitoring hub 127 9 Example of home energy readouts 131 10 A retail craft store in Manila, Philippines, displays a range of home décor products made from nito reeds along with accompanying documentation 170 11 Kalibo area artisans construct nito reed trays and container forms 177 12 In a Kalibo workshop an artisan polishes and trims loose ends from square nito reed place mats 180 13 Spyn system associates digital records with locations on knit fabric using computer vision 190 14 Iterative development of Spyn software; infrared-enabled camera images of knit yarn (left), Spyn screenshot (right) 192 15 Old-fashioned pickle jar, freshly made on the kick-wheel 208 16 Jimi Magajiya drawing patterns on cotton damask (shedda) in his home in Anguwar Magajiya 218
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