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Miniature Crafts and Their Makers Book

Miniature Crafts and Their Makers
Miniature Crafts and Their Makers, Picture a throng of tiny devils and angels, or a marching band so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. In a Mixtec town in the Mexican state of Puebla, craftspeople have been weaving palm since before the Spanish Conquest, but over the past f, Miniature Crafts and Their Makers has a rating of 3.5 stars
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Miniature Crafts and Their Makers, Picture a throng of tiny devils and angels, or a marching band so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. In a Mixtec town in the Mexican state of Puebla, craftspeople have been weaving palm since before the Spanish Conquest, but over the past f, Miniature Crafts and Their Makers
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  • Miniature Crafts and Their Makers
  • Written by author Katrin S. Flechsig
  • Published by University of Arizona Press, November 2004
  • Picture a throng of tiny devils and angels, or a marching band so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. In a Mixtec town in the Mexican state of Puebla, craftspeople have been weaving palm since before the Spanish Conquest, but over the past f
  • A cultural anthropologist specializing in the material culture of Mexico, Flechsig studied the makers of small figurines in the town of Santa MarĂ­a Chigmecatitlán, in the state of Pueblo, beginning in 1995. She interviewed palm and raffia weavers in their
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Introduction : the Lilliputization of Mexico3
Ch. 1Chigmecatitlan from a distance21
Ch. 2Palm weaving as a microindustry39
Ch. 3Brittle memories : a history of weaving palm68
Ch. 4Shrinking crafts89
Ch. 5The priest : ritual contexts of the miniature109
Ch. 6Learning and forgetting : the art of weaving palm135
Ch. 7Petty commodities : selling the miniature152
Conclusion : private town, public longing173
Postscript : imagining the future of a Mexican craft178


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