Introduction, Traditional arts and changing markets in Middle America / June Nash -- Weaving in the fast lane : class, ethnicity, and gender in Zapotec craft commercialization / Lynn Stephen -- Craft commodity production, market diversity, and differential rewards in Mexican capitalism today / Scott Cook -- Coyotes and culture brokers : the production and marketing of Taxco silverwork / Gobi Stromberg-Pellizzi -- Mexican museums in the creation of a national image in world tourism / Flora S. Kaplan -- Maya household production in the world market : the potters of Amatenango del Valle, Chiapas, Mexico / June Nash -- "That we may serve beneath your hands and feet" : women weavers in highland Chiapas, Mexico / Christine Eber and Brenda Rosenbaum
Belts, business, and Bloomingdale's : an alternative model for Guatemalan artisan development / Tracy Bachrach Ehlers -- Discontinuous warps : textile production and ethnicity in contemporary highland Guatemala / Robert S. Carlson -- Guatemalan refugee crafts project : artisan production in times of crisis / Erica Verrillo and Duncan MacLean Earle