Crafting Maya identity
Subtitle: contemporary wood sculptures from the Puuc Region of Yucatán, Mexico
By: Jeff Karl Kowalski, editor.
Contributors: Kowalski, Jeff Karl, 1951-; Jack Olson Gallery.; Teatro Peón Contreras (Mérida, Mexico)
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: DeKalb, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780875806303
Subjects: Indian art -- Mexico -- Puuc Region -- Exhibitions; Maya sculpture -- Exhibitions; Wood sculpture, Mexican -- Exhibitions; Wood-carving -- Mexico -- Puuc Region -- Exhibitions; Mayas -- Mexico -- Puuc Region -- Ethnic identity -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Other titles: Contemporary wood sculptures from the Puuc Region of Yucatán, Mexico
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Jack Olson Gallery, School of Art, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, Aug. 31-Sept. 25, 2009 and at Teatro Peon Contreras, Mérida, Yucatán, Sept.-Oct., 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Alfredo Barrera Rubio; title: Preface / Jeff Karl Kowalski, with Mary Katherine Scott; title: Imaging the Maya : carvings, carvers, contexts, and messages / Mary Katherine Scott and Jeff Karl Kowalski; title: Other carvings in the exhibition / Jeff Karl Kowalski and Quetzil Castañeda; title: Native American artistic creativity and commodity culture / Janet Catherine Berlo; title: The image of Africa and its relationship to commerce / Christopher B. Steiner; title: Aesthetics and ambivalence of Maya modernity : the ethnography of Maya art / Quetzil Castañeda; title: "Thrice built" : Uxmal and constructions of Maya identity / Jeff Karl Kowalski; title: Representing the Maya : when is it appropriate to call "appropriations" art? / Mary Katherine Scott; title: Appendix : prólogo y síntesis de capitulo 1 : traducción español / traduccion por Mary Katherine Scott con Giuliana Borea; title: Bibliography; title: Photo credits; title: Index.