Crafting Mexico
Intellectuals, Artisans, and the State after the Revolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19901090 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rick A López (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Pages | 436 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Crafting Mexico (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/9780822391739 |
| OpenAlex | W4249133697 |
| Open Library | OL33983282M |
| ISBN | 9780822391739 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
After Mexico’s revolution of 1910–1920, intellectuals sought to forge a unified cultural nation out of the country’s diverse populace. Their efforts resulted in an “ethnicized” interpretation of Mexicanness that intentionally incorporated elements of folk and indigenous culture. In this rich history, Rick A. López explains how thinkers and artists, including the anthropologist Manuel Gamio, the composer Carlos Chávez, the educator Moisés Sáenz, the painter Diego Rivera, and many less-known figures, formulated and promoted a notion of nationhood in which previously denigrated vernacular arts—dance, music, and handicrafts such as textiles, basketry, ceramics, wooden toys, and ritual masks—came to be seen as symbolic of Mexico’s modernity and national distinctiveness. López examines how the nationalist project intersected with transnational intellectual and artistic currents, as well as how it was adapted in rural communities. He provides an in-depth account of artisanal practices in the village of Olinalá, located in the mountainous southern state of Guerrero. Since the 1920s, Olinalá has been renowned for its lacquered boxes and gourds, which have been considered to be among the “most Mexican” of the nation’s arts. Crafting Mexico illuminates the role of cultural politics and visual production in Mexico’s transformation from a regionally and culturally fragmented country into a modern nation-state with an inclusive and compelling national identity
Art · Geography · Handicraft · Indigenous · Literature · Modernity · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · The arts · Vernacular · Visual arts · Anthropology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Photographic and Visual Arts · Politics and Society in Latin America · Intellectual life · Mexico · National characteristics, mexican · politics and government · Popular Culture
The land of seven moles
Visualizing mole poblano as heritage process in Mexico City’s Café de Tacuba
Becoming indigenous in postrevolutionary México. The Lake Pátzcuaro landscape as a place of discursive struggle
Finding Afro-Mexico
For Christ and Country
América Indígena and inter-American visual indigenismo , 1941–1951
Artists, folklorists, and cultural institutions in Ecuador (1944–1964)
Henrietta Yurchenco, música indígena e indigenismo interamericano en la década de 1940
Art, folklore, and industry
Whiteness wars in Las niñas bien
Heritage practices, indigenismo, and coloniality
Políticas culturales
Unfolding Maps during the Maximato in Mexico
Clara Porset in Mid Twentieth-Century Mexico
The Ashes of our Ancestors”
The Traje De Tehuana as National Icon
Salvador's Modernizador Cultural
Handcraft as Cultural Diplomacy
History museums, historical culture and the understanding of the past
Beyond Prejudice and Pride
(In)visible Ruins
A Mission of Enormous Transcendence
The allure of art and intellectual property
The Art of Indigeneity
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,85 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2024 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |