How Long to Read Craft Matters

How Long Does it Take to Read Craft Matters?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 58 minutes to read Craft Matters by Soumhya Venkatesan

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Craft Matters explores the ways in which traditional Indian craft producers engage with the efforts of government and non governmental agencies to preserve, promote and develop their crafts. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among the Labbai Muslim mat weavers of Pattamadai town in South India, this anthropological study explores the ways in which the famous pattu pai or high-quality silk-like mats of Pattamadai became classified as traditional craft objects, and what this classification has meant to the weavers who are now simultaneously national heroes and (paradoxically) marginalized and suspect Muslims. Handwoven by poor Muslims and bought by elite Tamil Hindus for use in marriage ceremonies and as craft objects by other affluent sections of society, the mats are made within the literature to embody liberal ideals of harmony between Hindus and Muslim, rural poor and urban elites, the past and the present, and tradition and modernity. The mats make their weavers accepted and celebrated within the wider nation, allowing them to act on the national stage. However, this is constantly constrained by the very ways in which craft is conceptualized in India.

How long is Craft Matters?

Craft Matters by Soumhya Venkatesan is 294 pages long, and a total of 74,676 words.

This makes it 99% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Craft Matters Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 48 minutes to read Craft Matters aloud.

What Reading Level is Craft Matters?

Craft Matters is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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