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Crafts in the world market : the impact of global exchange on Middle American artisans / edited by June Nash

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Author:
Nash, June C. 1927-  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Mexico
Guatemala
Mexique
Zentralamerika
Date:
1993
©1993
Contents:
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
Topic:
Indian handicraft industries  Search this
Economic conditions  Search this
Handicraft industries  Search this
Export marketing  Search this
Indian artisans  Search this
Indians of Central America--Economic conditions  Search this
Indians of Mexico--Economic conditions  Search this
Handwerkslieden  Search this
Indianen  Search this
Internationale marketing  Search this
Indiens--Industrie  Search this
Indiens--Conditions économiques  Search this
Artisanat  Search this
Marchés d'exportation  Search this
Handwerk  Search this
Weltmarkt  Search this
Geschichte  Search this
Kongress  Search this
Call number:
F1219.3.I5C74 1993X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_449347