Crafts in the World Market

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.

• Figures and TablesPreface1. Introduction: Traditional Arts and Changing Markets in Middle AmericaJune Nash2. Weaving in the Fast Lane: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in Zapotec Craft CommercializationLynn Stephen3. Craft Commodity Production, Market Diversity, and Differential Rewards in Mexican Capitalism TodayScott Cook4. Coyotes and Culture Brokers: The Production and Marketing of Taxco SilverworkGobi Stromberg-Pellizzi5. Mexican Museums in the Creation of a National Image in World TourismFlora S. Kaplan6. Maya Household Production in the World Market: The Potters of Amatenango del Valle, Chiapas, MexicoJune Nash7. "That we may serve beneath your hands and feet": Women Weavers in Highland Chiapas, MexicoChristine Eber and Brenda Rosenbaum8. Belts, Business, and Bloomingdale's: An Alternative Model for Guatemalan Artisan DevelopmentTracy Bachrach Ehlers9. Discontinuous Warps: Textile Production and Ethnicity in Contemporary Highland GuatemalaRobert S. Carlsen10. The Guatemalan Refugee Crafts Project: Artisan Production in Times of CrisisErica Verrillo and Duncan MacLean EarleContributorsIndex

"What I like most about the book is the elucidation of the multifaceted nature of craft production in Latin America. It offers the reader a telescoping of perspective, from the microscopic factors of individual motivation and reward in craftwork to the macroscopic influence of world market conditions and intercultural perceptions of 'authenticity' and 'quality.' " — Michael Coy, St. Mary's College of Maryland"Unlike most ethnographic reports on artisan production in Latin America, this book discusses not only local developments, styles, and practices associated with artisan production, but also their connections with the world economy and the ways in which they affect and modify each other (local production, national, and international market)." — Liliana R. Goldin, The University at Albany, State University of New York