{"product_id":"folk-art-continuity-creativity-and-the-brazilian-quotidian-hardcover","title":"Folk Art: Continuity, Creativity, and the Brazilian Quotidian - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHenry Glassie\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePravina Shukla\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eListen to the artists of the Brazilian Northeast. Their work, they say, comes of continuity and creativity. Continuity runs along lines of learning toward social coherence. Creativity brings challenges and deep personal satisfaction.\u003cbr\u003eWhat they say and do in Brazil aligns with ethnographic evidence from New Mexico and North Carolina; from Ireland, Portugal, and Italy; from Nigeria, Turkey, India, and Bangladesh; from China and Japan.\u003cbr\u003eThis book is about that, about folk art as a sign of human unity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHENRY GLASSIE, College Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, received the Haskins Prize of the American Council of Learned Societies for a distinguished career of humanistic scholarship. Three of his books--\u003ci\u003ePassing the Time in Ballymenone, The Spirit of Folk Art, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTurkish Traditional Art Today\u003c\/i\u003e--were named among the notable books of the year by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. The film by Pat Collins, \u003ci\u003eHenry Glassie: Field Work\u003c\/i\u003e, was named the best Irish documentary of the year in 2020.\u003cbr\u003ePRAVINA SHUKLA, Provost Professor and currently Chair of the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, has won six teaching awards including the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Grace of Four Moons: Dress, Adornment, and the Art of the Body in Modern India\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Coomaraswamy Prize of the Association of Asian Studies and the Davenport Award of the Costume Society of America. She also wrote \u003ci\u003eCostume: Performing Identities through Dress\u003c\/i\u003e and co-authored \u003ci\u003eThe Individual and Tradition.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 612\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.7 x 9.6 x 7.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42156361384071,"sku":"9780253067210","price":61.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/71add8e319e470615ae20724b49275f0.webp?v=1733243172","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/folk-art-continuity-creativity-and-the-brazilian-quotidian-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}