Between Art and Artifact: Archaeological Replicas and Cultural Production in Oaxaca, Mexico

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Between Art and Artifact ARCHAEOLOGICAL REPLICAS AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION IN OAXACA, MEXICO Ronda L. Brulotte University of Texas Press Austin Copyright © 2012 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2012 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713–7819 www.utexas.edu/utpress/about/bpermission.html ○ ∞ The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48–1992 (R1997) (Permanence of Paper). LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Brulotte, Ronda L. Between art and artifact : archaeological replicas and cultural production in Oaxaca, Mexico / Ronda L. Brulotte. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-292-73779-2 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-292-73780-8 (e-book) 1. Indians of Mexico—Mexico—Oaxaca Valley—Material culture. 2. Indian wood-carving—Mexico—Oaxaca Valley. 3. Indian art— Mexico—Oaxaca Valley. 4. Cultural property—Mexico—Oaxaca Valley. 5. Art objects—Mexico—Oaxaca Valley—Reproduction. 6. Antiquities—Mexico—Oaxaca Valley—Reproduction. 7. Oaxaca Valley (Mexico)—Antiquities. I. Title. F1219.1.O11B78 2012 972′.74—dc23 2012007464 Para todos los artesanos de Arrazola TO ALL OF THE ARTISANS OF ARRAZOLA Copying is a hermeneutic task, in which the great contending paradigms of hermeneutics are at work, such as understanding, understanding better than the original, understanding differently, or even demonstrating the impossibility of understanding. SÁNDOR RADNÓTI ...