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Crafting Maya Identity: Contemporary Wood Sculptures From The Puuc Region Of Yucatn, Mexico,Used
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Published for the exhibition at the Jack Olson Gallery, School of Art, Northern Illinois University, curated by Jeff Karl Kowalski and Mary Katherine ScottBased on ancient Maya imagery and sold to visitors to archaeological sites, the technically refined, finely detailed, and visually complex carvings created by the artisans of the Puuc region are often described as handicraft or 'tourist art.' These works, however, provide important information on how a relatively recent artistic tradition has emerged in and responded to particular historical and economic contexts. The influx of 'cultural tourists' to archaeological sites in the Puuc region has provided the impetus for a group of entrepreneurial local artisans to combine opportunities for economic gain with creative expression. The carvings also communicate significant messages about the ambivalent nature of Maya cultural identity. Although tourism tends to reinforce ideas that the most authentic image of Maya culture resides in the PreColumbian past, the monetary incentive it provides has supported these artisans' efforts to reclaim and retask such cultural imagery.Accompanying essays by art historians and anthropologistsKowalski, Janet Catherine Berlo, Christopher B. Steiner, Quetzil Castaeda, and Mary Katherine Scottprovide individualized studies of Native American, African, and Mesoamerican aesthetic artifacts. The authors examine issues that lie at the intersection of art, visual culture, cultural identities, authenticity, and globalization. A key focus includes how identity is constructed, represented, and understood both by the artisans and tourist visitors in the context of crosscultural contact, mass media, and touristic promotion. The volume considers the broader role of artists and the visual arts in society and the study of such art forms in the context of changing conceptions of art and aesthetics.Crafting Maya Identity presents the first comprehensive examination of the distinctive artworks produced by these Yucatec Maya carvers. The book will appeal to anthropologists, art historians, and scholars of Maya studies and crosscultural aesthetics, as well as artists and collectors. Included is an abridged Spanish version of the introductory text and a foreword by Alfredo Barrera Rubio, former Director of the Regional Center of Yucatn of the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History.
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