Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff is an independent scholar, founder of Cuentos Foundation, and assistant editor of the Journal of Embodied Research.

Acknowledging: The Widening Circles

Prolonging: Following Folds beyond Boundaries

Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff

An Appreciation of Dr. Janet B. Esser: From Brooklyn to Michoacán

Natasha Bonilla Eckholm

Prefacing Things: A Pondering

Michele AvisFeder-Nadoff

Chapter 1: Introducing Things: Between the Lines

Michele AvisFeder-Nadoff

PART ONE: TRANSLATING INSIDES AND OUTSIDES, MATERIALS AND GESTURES, NOMADIC AESTHETICS AND COMMUNITY

Pondering Two

Eugenio Mercado López

Chapter 2: Artisans and Crafts in Postrevolutionary Mexico

Eugenio Mercado López

Pondering Three

Amalia Ramírez Garayzar

Chapter 3: The Rebozo: The Stereotype of the Popular Mexican Woman in Nineteenth-Century Art and Onward

Amalia Ramírez Garayzar

Pondering Four

Anne W.Johnson

Chapter 4: Performative Materiality, Masks, and Masking in Teloloapan, Guerrero

Anne W.Johnson

Pondering Five

Eva Maria Garrido Izaguirre

Chapter 5: Indigenous Aesthetics and Glocalization: Recursive Agencies and Reflexivity

Eva María Garrido Izaguirre

Pondering Six

Lorena Ojeda Dávila and Iris Calderón Téllez

Chapter 6: Identity, Female Empowerment, and Resistance through Textile Crafts in the P'urhépecha Region of Mexico

Lorena Ojeda Dávila and Iris Calderón Téllez

Pondering Seven

Claudia Rocha Valverde

Chapter 7: The Triqui Huipil as a Representation of Territory: Women Immigrants between Oaxaca and San Luis Potosí

Claudia RochaValverde

PART TWO: FORTLEBEN: CALLING FORTH, LIVING FORTH

Chapter 8: Pondering Fortleben: An Interview with Janet B. Esser

Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff

Chapter 9: Selected Excerpts: Winter Ceremonial Masks of the Tarascan

Sierra, Michoacán, México

Dr. Janet B. Esser

Introduction

Michele Avis Feder-Nadoff

Chapter 10: Afterword

Ronda L. Brulotte

Chapter 11: Masks in Performance: Selected Fieldwork Photographs

Dr. Janet B. Esser

Biographical Synthesis

Dr. Janet B. Esser

Janet B. Esser Selected Bibliography