Necessity of Craft, The: Development and Women’s Craft in the Asian-Pacific Region

ART & CRAFT General

Examines the complex social and cultural issues surrounding the general decline in women’s traditional craft practices, and the appropriation of these crafts into a more commodified form of production. Writers from the Asian-Pacific region address a diverse range of women’s craft practices: carpet making in refugee camps; weaving in Thailand, the Philippines, Australia and Tonga; scroll-making and clay modelling in India; kueh-making in Singapore; dough sculptures in China; and a range of crafts in Indonesian cooperative developments.

• xiv, 186 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. #261124
• Handicraft — Social aspects — Asia
• Handicraft — Social aspects — Pacific Area
• Handicraft — Economic aspects — Asia
• Handicraft — Economic aspects — Pacific Area
• Women artisans — Asia
• Women artisans — Pacific Area