Routledge India Crafts And Craftsmen In Pre-Colonial Eastern India Technology And Culture 09781032134857
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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 personsâ 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. | Crafts and Craftsmen in Pre-colonial Eastern India Technology and Culture
Routledge India Crafts And Craftsmen In Pre-Colonial Eastern India Technology And Culture 09781032134857
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 personsâ 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. | Crafts and Craftsmen in Pre-colonial Eastern India Technology and Culture
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