Crafting Maya identity
Subtitle: contemporary wood sculptures from the Puuc Region of Yucatán, Mexico
By: edited by Jeff Karl Kowalski.
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
ISBN-13: 9780875806303
Subjects: Indian art -- Mexico -- Puuc Region; Maya sculpture; Wood sculpture, Mexican; Wood-carving -- Mexico -- Puuc Region; Mayas -- Mexico -- Puuc Region -- Ethnic identity
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 Peón Contreras, Mérida, Yucatán, later 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Picture locations; title: Foreword / Alfredo Barrera Rubio; title: Preface / Jeff Karl Kowalski, with Mary Katherine Scott; title: 1. Imaging the Maya : carvings, carvers, contexts, and messages / Mary Katherine Scott and Jeff Karl Kowalski; title: 2. Other carvings in the exhibition / Jeff Karl Kowalski and Quetzil Castañeda; title: 3. Native American artistic creativity and commodity culture / Janet Catherine Berlo; title: 4. The image of Africa and its relationship to commerce / Christopher B. Steiner; title: 5. Aesthetics and ambivalence of Maya modernity : the ethnography of Maya art / Quetzil Castañeda; title: 6. "Thrice built" : Uxmal and constructions of Maya identity / Jeff Karl Kowalski; title: 7. Representing the Maya : when is it appropriate to call "appropriations" art? / Mary Katherine Scott; title: Appendix. Prólogo y síntesis de sección 1 : traducción español; title: Bibliography; title: Index.