Craft matters: artisans, development and the Indian Nation (Record no. 227667)

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International Standard Book Number 9788125036821
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Classification number 306.489 VEN
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Personal name Venkatesan, Soumhya
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Title Craft matters: artisans, development and the Indian Nation
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Hyderabad
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Orient Blackswan
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2009
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Extent 294 p.
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Price amount 9000
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Summary, etc. Craft Matters explores the ways in which traditional Indian craft producers engage with the efforts of government and non governmental agencies to preserve, promote and develop their crafts. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among the Labbai Muslim mat weavers of Pattamadai town in South India, this anthropological study explores the ways in which the famous pattu pai or high-quality silk-like mats of Pattamadai became classified as traditional craft objects and what this classification has meant to the weavers who are now simultaneously national heroes and (paradoxically) marginalized and suspect Muslims. Handwoven by poor Muslims and bought by elite Tamil Hindus for use in marriage ceremonies and as craft objects by other affluent sections of society, the mats are made within the literature to embody liberal ideals of harmony between Hindus and Muslim, rural poor and urban elites, the past and the present and tradition and modernity. The mats make their weavers accepted and celebrated within the wider nation, allowing them to act on the national stage. However, this is constantly constrained by the very ways in which craft is conceptualized in India. This book will be of interest to anthropologists concerned with the agency of objects, the production of persons through things and the working of development on the ground. Written in a lively and jargon-free style, it will also be of interests to scholars of development, development practitioners and all those fascinated by craft.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Craft-India- Social aspects
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