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Artisans and cooperatives : edited by Kimberly M. Grimes and B. Lynne Milgram ; postscript by June Nash. - Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2000. - vii, 208 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-198) and index.


Introduction: facing the challenges of artisan production in the global market / Kimberly M. Grimes and B. Lynne Milgram
Democratizing international production and trade: North American alternative trading organizations / Kimberly M. Grimes
Building on local strengths: Nepalese fair trade textiles / Rachel MacHenry
"That they be in the middle, Lord": women, weaving, and cultural survival in Highland Chiapas, Mexico / Christine E. Eber
The international craft market: a double-edged sword for Guatemalan Maya women / Martha Lynd
Of women, hope, and angels: fair trade and artisan production in a squatter settlement in Guatemala City / Brenda Rosenbaum
Reorganizing textile production for the global market: women's craft cooperatives in Ifugao, Upland Philippines / B. Lynne Milgram
Textile production in rural Oaxaca, Mexico: the complexities of the global market for handmade crafts / Jeffrey H. Cohen
"Part-time for pin money": the legacy of Navajo women's craft production / Kathy M'Closkey
The hard sell: anthropologists as brokers of crafts in the global marketplace / Andrew Causey
Postscript: to market, to market / June Nash


ISBN: 0816520518 (alk. paper) 0816520887 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 00008226

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Handicraft industries.
Producer cooperatives
Applied anthropology.
Artisans.

LC Class. No.: HD9999.H362 / A78 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 306.368 / ART