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

By: Nash, June C, 1927-
Language: English Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 1993.Description: xii, 264p. : ill., tables ; 23cm.ISBN: 0791410625
Contents:
Contents: Traditional arts and changing markets in Middle America / J. 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 / G. Stromberg-Pellizzi; Mexican museums in the creation of a national image in world tourism / F.S. Kaplan; Maya household production in the world market / J. Nash; "That we may serve beneath your hands and feet": women weavers in highland Chiapas / C. Eber, B. Rosenbaum; Belts, business and Bloomingdale's: Guatemalan artisan develeopment / T.B. Ehlers; Discontinuous warps: textile production and ethnicity in highland Guatemala / R.S. Carlsen; The Guatemalan Refugee crafts project / E. Verrillo, D. MacLean Earle.
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Book Book British Museum Royal Anthropological Institute Open Shelves KUC [NAS-] (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available L64084
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Includes bibl. references.

Contents: Traditional arts and changing markets in Middle America / J. 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 / G. Stromberg-Pellizzi; Mexican museums in the creation of a national image in world tourism / F.S. Kaplan; Maya household production in the world market / J. Nash; "That we may serve beneath your hands and feet": women weavers in highland Chiapas / C. Eber, B. Rosenbaum; Belts, business and Bloomingdale's: Guatemalan artisan develeopment / T.B. Ehlers; Discontinuous warps: textile production and ethnicity in highland Guatemala / R.S. Carlsen; The Guatemalan Refugee crafts project / E. Verrillo, D. MacLean Earle.