Alicia Ory Denicola
Biographic Data
| ID | 628449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alicia Ory Denicola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alicia Ory |
| FAMILY NAME | Denicola |
| SIGNATURE | DENICOLA A O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2164-3545 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Craft
Steeped in ethnographic methodology and the ethical lessons of history, anthropology is a field well suited to study craft, and yet it is often a marginal area of study within the discipline. How have studies of craft been meaningful within the field of anthropology and how do ideas of craft—as object, idea, geography—work as discursive tools of meaning making? Craft works semiotically within larger contexts of meaning and culture. Looked at in t…
Asymmetrical indications: Negotiating creativity through Geographical Indications in north India
Much of the anthropology of copyright and other forms of intellectual property (IP) rights focuses on indigenous rights and protection from Western corporate interests. Geographical Indications (GI) are a relatively new form of IP that, arguably, seek to address the issue of indigenous rights and traditional knowledges. Little, however, has been written about the complex ways that international law mediates local understandings of creativity and …
Rescue and Redemption: Design schools, traditional craft and the nation-state in contemporary India
In The Body Impolitic, Herzfeld (2004) develops a theory of the 'global hierarchy of value', according to which traditional artisans are discursively constructed as socially and economically subordinate to contemporary global capital. A pivotal consideration in understanding such discursive formations, Herzfeld suggests, is the identification of the agents through whom that discourse takes shape and becomes entrenched. Here, we advocate a paralle…
Looking at Culture Through Craft
Working Through Tradition: Experiential Learning and Formal Training as Markers of Class and Caste in North Indian Block Printing
Located about 40 kilometers west of Jaipur, India, Bagru is home to a nationally renowned cluster of about 100 artisan families who use wooden blocks and rely heavily on regionally manufactured natural dyes to hand print upscale boutique textiles for the world market. As printers have successfully entered into export markets, they have sold their products as "traditional," marking their commodities as distinct from mass-produced, screen-printed t…
Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India (review)
Nicholas B. Dirks. 2001. Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India. Princeton: Princeton University Press
Rescue and Redemption: Design schools, traditional craft and the nation-state in contemporary India
In The Body Impolitic, Herzfeld (2004) develops a theory of the 'global hierarchy of value', according to which traditional artisans are discursively constructed as socially and economically subordinate to contemporary global capital. A pivotal consideration in understanding such discursive formations, Herzfeld suggests, is the identification of the agents through whom that discourse takes shape and becomes entrenched. Here, we advocate a paralle…
Working Through Tradition: Experiential Learning and Formal Training as Markers of Class and Caste in North Indian Block Printing
Located about 40 kilometers west of Jaipur, India, Bagru is home to a nationally renowned cluster of about 100 artisan families who use wooden blocks and rely heavily on regionally manufactured natural dyes to hand print upscale boutique textiles for the world market. As printers have successfully entered into export markets, they have sold their products as "traditional," marking their commodities as distinct from mass-produced, screen-printed t…
Asymmetrical indications: Negotiating creativity through Geographical Indications in north India
Much of the anthropology of copyright and other forms of intellectual property (IP) rights focuses on indigenous rights and protection from Western corporate interests. Geographical Indications (GI) are a relatively new form of IP that, arguably, seek to address the issue of indigenous rights and traditional knowledges. Little, however, has been written about the complex ways that international law mediates local understandings of creativity and …
Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India (review)
Nicholas B. Dirks. 2001. Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India. Princeton: Princeton University Press
Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India (review)
Nicholas B. Dirks. 2001. Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India. Princeton: Princeton University Press
Working Through Tradition: Experiential Learning and Formal Training as Markers of Class and Caste in North Indian Block Printing
Located about 40 kilometers west of Jaipur, India, Bagru is home to a nationally renowned cluster of about 100 artisan families who use wooden blocks and rely heavily on regionally manufactured natural dyes to hand print upscale boutique textiles for the world market. As printers have successfully entered into export markets, they have sold their products as "traditional," marking their commodities as distinct from mass-produced, screen-printed t…
Looking at Culture Through Craft
Rescue and Redemption: Design schools, traditional craft and the nation-state in contemporary India
In The Body Impolitic, Herzfeld (2004) develops a theory of the 'global hierarchy of value', according to which traditional artisans are discursively constructed as socially and economically subordinate to contemporary global capital. A pivotal consideration in understanding such discursive formations, Herzfeld suggests, is the identification of the agents through whom that discourse takes shape and becomes entrenched. Here, we advocate a paralle…
Asymmetrical indications: Negotiating creativity through Geographical Indications in north India
Much of the anthropology of copyright and other forms of intellectual property (IP) rights focuses on indigenous rights and protection from Western corporate interests. Geographical Indications (GI) are a relatively new form of IP that, arguably, seek to address the issue of indigenous rights and traditional knowledges. Little, however, has been written about the complex ways that international law mediates local understandings of creativity and …
Craft
Steeped in ethnographic methodology and the ethical lessons of history, anthropology is a field well suited to study craft, and yet it is often a marginal area of study within the discipline. How have studies of craft been meaningful within the field of anthropology and how do ideas of craft—as object, idea, geography—work as discursive tools of meaning making? Craft works semiotically within larger contexts of meaning and culture. Looked at in t…
Crafts, Textile, and Design (5 works) · Craft (3 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Citation (1 works)