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Potters without a Wheel

Saswati Bhattacharya

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  • 160 sidor
  • 2022
This book is an ethnographic study of clay idol-makers of Kumartuli in Kolkata, India. Much of the visibility and identity of Kolkatas creative culture has been dependent upon the clay artists of Kumartuli for the last 100 years or so. This book explores the nature of the carefully constructed identity of these idol-makers as mritshilpis , or clay artists, who, as opposed to ordinary potters, work with their hands instead of a wheel. It looks at how the mritshilpis consciously embrace and expand their market based on this variation and elevated status as artists instead of artisans and studies the embeddedness of this identity within the commodity markets. It also shows that commodity markets, in this case the market of clay idols, are an outcome of trends of urbanisation, popular demand, corporatisation and commodification of culture, all of which have shaped the contours of clay idol-making as not only an occupation but a brand identity. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and in-depth interviews, the book highlights the larger structural relationship between urbanisation, indigenous occupational categories and identity politics. It will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of sociology, social anthropology, political studies, cultural history, urban economy, art history, urbanisation, cultural studies and urban sociology.
  • Författare: Saswati Bhattacharya
  • Illustratör: black and white 2 Tables 6 Line drawings, black and white 22 Halftones black and white 28 Illus
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781032023618
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 160
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-06-24
  • Förlag: Routledge India