Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Mahamaya
Author: Mahamaya, the Crafts and Craftsmen of Eastern India
Author: Crafts and Craftsmen in Pre-colonial Eastern India
Author: Asha Shukla ChoubeyPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100047769X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This book presents a comprehensive socio-cultural history of crafts and crafts persons in pre-colonial Eastern India. It focuses on the technology of crafts as being integral to the traditional lives of the crafts persons and explores their cultural and social world. It offers an in-depth analysis of the complexities of craft technologies in the three sectors of cotton textile, sericulture and silk textile and mining and metallurgy in the regions of Bihar and Jharkhand in Eastern India in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Apart from technology, the book discusses a range of socio-economic themes including craft production systems; marketing and financing patterns; impact of contact with the world market; craft persons’ identities in terms of caste affiliations and group divisions; negotiations for upward caste mobility; contestations and dissent of lower castes; power and social stratification; functioning of caste panchayats; gender division of craft labour; myths, beliefs and religiosity attributed to craft usages; social and ritual traditions; and contemporary craft traditions. Rich in archival and diverse sources, including oral traditions, paintings, and findings from extensive field visits and interactions with crafts persons, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of crafts, medieval Indian history, social history, sociology and social anthropology, economic history, cultural history, science and technology studies, and South Asian studies. It will also interest government and non-governmental organisations, textile historians, craft and design specialists, contemporary craft industrial sector, and museums.
Making Kantha, Making Home
Author: Pika GhoshPublisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 0295747005
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha from layers of soft, recycled fabric strengthened with running stitches and use them as shawls, covers, and seating mats. Making Kantha, Making Home explores the social worlds shaped by the Bengali kantha that survive from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the first study of colonial-period women’s embroidery that situates these objects historically and socially, Pika Ghosh brings technique and aesthetic choices into discussion with iconography and regional culture. Ghosh uses ethnographic and archival research, inscriptions, and images to locate embroiderers’ work within domestic networks and to show how imagery from poetry, drama, prints, and watercolors expresses kantha artists’ visual literacy. Affinities with older textile practices include the region’s lucrative maritime trade in embroideries with Europe, Africa, and China. This appraisal of individual objects alongside the people and stories behind the objects’ creation elevates kantha beyond consideration as mere handcraft to recognition as art.
Kantha
Author: Darielle MasonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This first book-length study on kanthas published outside of South Asia focuses on two premier collections, one assembled by the legendary historian of Indian art, Dr. Stella Kramrisch, the other by Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz, leading proponents of self-taught art. Created from worn-out garments imaginatively embroidered by women with motifs and tales drawn from a rich regional repertoire, kanthas traditionally were stitched as gifts for births, weddings, and other family occasions. Innovative essays by leading scholars explore the domestic, ritual, and historical contexts of the fascinating quilts in these collections--made between the mid-19th and mid-20th century in what is today Bangladesh and West Bengal, India--and trace their reinterpretation as emblems of national identity and works of art.
The Indian Craftsman
Author: Ananda Kentish CoomaraswamyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artisans
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Crafts and Craftsmen in Pre-colonial Eastern India
Author: Asha Shukla ChoubeyPublisher: Routledge Chapman & Hall
ISBN: 9781032134857
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book presents a comprehensive socio-cultural history of crafts and crafts persons in pre-colonial eastern India. It offers an in-depth analysis of craft technologies in the three sectors of cotton textile, sericulture and silk textile and mining and metallurgy in eastern India in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Indian and Foreign Review
Author: Index India
Author: Cooking for the Gods
Author: Pika GhoshPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Cooking for the Gods focuses on the special role of women in this domestic Hindu Bengali realm as they care for both their family and the numerous household deities who reside in the home shrine and partake of the cooked offerings.