Artisans
An artisan (from French: artisan, Italian: artigiano) is a skilled craft worker who makes or creates material objects partly or entirely by hand. These objects may be functional or strictly decorative, for example furniture, decorative art, sculpture, clothing, jewellery, food items, household items and tools and mechanisms such as the handmade clockwork movement of a watchmaker. Artisans practice a craft and may through experience and aptitude reach the expressive levels of an artist. The adjective "artisanal" is often used in describing hand-processing in contrast to an industrial process, such as in the phrase artisanal mining. Thus, "artisanal" is sometimes used …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 19 March 2024 English
collaboration of activists and organisations focussing on current challenges faced by primary producers, artisans and rural workers in India. This Agenda 2024 for Agriculture & Allied Sectors was released by …
and, Recognising our responsibility to farmers artisans and working people as honest hard workers who … and emerging challenges of primary producers, artisans and rural workers in a systematic manner and make … marginal farmers have been forced to sell their land. Artisans have also lost their work and many are forced … interest loans and access to markets for dalit artisans and small scale fishing dependent families. Rural …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 10 January 2024 English
level of skill the art calls for, this is a seasonal livelihood tied to the wedding months, and many artisans work as daily wage labourers the rest of the year …
livelihood tied to the wedding months, and many artisans work as daily wage labourers the rest of the year …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 December 2023 English
This study was published by the Centre for Education and Communication, a resource centre based in New Delhi. It was released in December 2023. The research was funded by Rosa …
producing units – factories, work- shops, home-based artisans – are the diverse categories of contractors, who … adda-work, or moti-work) to home based workers/artisans, connected through sub-contractors. Taken together … spinners, weavers, stitchers and other skilled artisans. • It promised to give each spinner two charkhas …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 16 October 2023 English
Badminton shuttlecocks are made in India by artisans in Howrah district who have been practicing this craft since the 1920s. But now, lack of government support, stiff international competition and the …
Badminton shuttlecocks are made in India by artisans in Howrah district who have been practicing this …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 7 August 2023 English
In one of the many syncretic traditions of Karnataka, it is Muslim men who make and throw firecrackers for religious and cultural events across faiths. A film on garnal saibers …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 August 2023 English
Status of Adivasi Livelihoods is the second instalment in the series of reports on the lives of Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG), prepared by the non-governmental …
PVTG. They are groups who are more likely to be artisans or practice shifting cultivation, unlike the … PVTG. They are groups who are more likely to be artisans or practice shifting cultivation, unlike the …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 24 June 2023 English
A film on the Van Gujjar community and their challenges in the hills and forests of Uttarakhand
Archana Shukla RELATED STORIES • [image] The conch artisans of Barrackpore Student Reporter : Anish Chakraborty …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 29 May 2023 English
A film about shadow puppet theatre in the villages of the Malabar region of Kerala
Punjabi ○ Tamil ○ Urdu • [image] The conch artisans of Barrackpore Student Reporter : Anish Chakraborty …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 20 May 2023 English
In this region of Maharashtra, unreliable power supply has thrown farmers' lives into disarray. A short film
Punjabi ○ Tamil ○ Urdu • [image] The conch artisans of Barrackpore Student Reporter : Anish Chakraborty …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 15 February 2023 English
Just like Mahatma Phule's student Mukta Salve challenged the caste system in 1885, Kadubai Kharat has raised her voice and ektari against oppression in our times – guided by Babasaheb's …
Brahminical classical music. In India, Muslim artisans in Kanpur, Ajmer and Miraj make them. The oppressed …
