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This thesis analyzes how the idea of “folk” is used in discourse by the state and intellectuals to gain internal legitimacy and to reposition themselves globally in early twenty-first century China. By interrogating the discourse of “folk” as intangible cultural heritage and art…

The 1921 “Exhibición de Arte Popular” established the category of arte popular in Mexico. The exhibition required that all works be made from materials originating in the country of Mexico and created through “authentic” Indigenous traditions. In other words, the focus was on cr…

El Museo de Artes Popular (1979), hoy llamado Museo de Artes y Tradiciones Populares (MATP) surgió de una coyuntura especial: las discusiones académico-artísticas que se derivaron del reconocimiento a Joaquín López Antay como ganador del Premio Nacional de Arte en diciembre de 1…

Eight founding members of Artěl—the Prague avant-garde’s response to the Wiener Werkstätte—united in 1908 with a manifesto proclaiming their goals to combat inferior factory substitutes for handcrafted designs and to restore society with a sense of taste through affordable produ…

Folklorists and Anthropologists have historically examined the relationship between art and community. The interrelationship of art and community offers a rich field of study for examining cultural expressions of faith, social complexity, and aesthetic preferences. Folklorists h…

In the last decade, the region of Darfur, Western Sudan, like other parts of the African continent, has been exposed to waves of dry seasons that affected its farming system by transforming its fertile lands into an enormous desert. People starved to death, some of them fled to …