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Initiates a gender-based framework for analyzing Latin American and Caribbean folk art. From a feminist perspective, this title examines twentieth-century and contemporary art by women, and also its production, distribution, and consumption.

Crafting Gender

Illustrations vii



Acknowledgments ix



Introduction / Eli Bartra 1



Always Something New: Changing Fashions in a "Traditional Culture" (Suriname) / Sally Price 17



The Emergence of the Santeras: Renewed Strength for Traditional Puerto Rican Art (Puerto Rico) / Norma Valle 35



Kuna Women's Art: Molas, Meaning, and Markets (Panama) / Mari Lyn Salvador 47



Connections: Creative Expressions of Canelos Quichua women (Ecuador) / Dorothea Scott Whitten 73



Engendering Clay: Las Ceramistas of Mata Ortiz (Mexico) / Eli Bartra 98



Women's Folk Art in La Chamba, Colombia (Colombia) / Ronald J. Duncan 126



The Mapuche Craftswomen (Argentina) / Dolores Juliano 155



Women's Prayers: The Aesthetics and Meaning of Female Votive Paintings in Chalma (Mexico) / Maria J. Rodriguez-Shadow 169



Earth Magic: The Legacy of Teodora Blanco (Mexico) / Betty LaDuke 197



Tastes, Colors, and Techniques in Embroidered Mayan Female Costumes (Mexico) / Lourdes Rejon Patron 220



Contributors 237



Index 241