Crafts in the World Market - The Impact of Global Exchange on Middle American Artisans

The growing exchange of traditional craft objects in world markets has had a profound impact on the lives of the women and men who produce them. These essays describe how the flow of goods from the industrial centers of the world to the colonies in earlier centuries is now met by a reverse flow as consumers seek the exotic and unique objects of handicraft production in Third World countries. The book explores the paradox of how artisans continue to create traditional objects, yet new sources of wealth and intensified production are transforming their traditional lifeways in areas such as the Oaxaca Valley, the Yucatan, Highland Chiapas, and Guatemala.

About the author

June Nash is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the City College and Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is author of From Tank Town to High Tech: The Clash of Community and Industrial Cycles, and co-editor of Women, Men, and the International Division of Labor, also published by SUNY Press.

Product details

• Authors: June C. Nash
• Assisted by: June C Nash (Editor), June C. Nash (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.08.1993
• EAN: 9780791410622
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-1062-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 862 g
• Series: Suny the Anthropology of Work
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches