Artisans and Advocacy in the Global Market: Walking the Heart Path

by Jeanne Simonelli (Editor), Katherine O'Donnell (Editor), June Nash (Editor)

Overview

The collaborations, cooperatives, and conundrums described in this collection reaffirm ancient traditions even as artisan production and the preservation of cultural identity interact to create a sustainable future that entails new kinds of producer-consumer relations and partnerships. Contributors to this book explore how crafts—pottery, weaving, basketmaking, storytelling—in Middle America and beyond are a means of making an intangible cultural heritage visible, material, and enduring. Each contribution shows how social science research can evolve into advocacy, collaboration, and friendship—activist work that exemplifies the continuing concerns of applied and practicing social scientists in an anthropology increasingly cognizant of both its past and its potential impact on power and equity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781938645532
Publisher:	School for Advanced Research Press
Publication date:	09/15/2015
Series:	School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jeanne Simonelli is a professor emerita of anthropology and senior research associate at Wake Forest University. She is the author of Crossing Between Worlds: The Navajo of Canyon de Chelly and the coauthor of Uprising of Hope: Sharing the Zapatista Journey to Alternative Development.


Katherine O'Donnell is a professor of sociology at Hartwick College and the author of Weaving Transnational Solidarity: From the Catskills to Chiapas and Beyond.


June Nash is a Distinguished Professor emerita of anthropology at the City University of New York. Her most recent book is Mayan Visions: The Quest for Autonomy in an Age of Globalization.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Plates ix

Foreword Brenda Rosenbaum xi

Acknowledgments xix

1 Introduction: Artisan Production in the World Market Katherine O'Donnell Jeanne Simonelli 3

2 Mayan Artisan Production: Creation of the World and the Re-creation of Another World 19

Authenticity and the Value of Long-Term Market Exchanges June Nash 38

3 From a Potter's Perspective: Hopi Pottery and the World Market 43

Artisan Advocacy: First Steps Lea S. McChesney Karen Kahe Charley 71

4 Weaving Cooperatives and the Resistance Movement in Highland Chiapas, Mexico: Pass Well Over the Earth 75

Creating and Sustaining a Solidarity Network Christine Fiber 97

5 Can You Do More Than Take Photos'? Solidarity, Efficacy, and Marketing with Jolom Mayaetik, Mayan Women's We axing Cooperative, Chiapas, Mexico 101

Tips For Working With an Indigenous Cooperative Katherine O'Donnell 125

6 Interview: Crafts in the World Market Rosalinda Santiz Diaz 129

7 Recrafting in a Global Marketplace 145

Working With Artisans Under Difficult Circumstances Duncan Earle 167

8 Eastern Cherokee and Other Native American Indian Collective Enterprises: Seeking, Selling, Saving Crafts 171

Getting Your Message Out in Multiple. Ways to Multiple Audiences Betty J. Duggan Vicki Cruz 193

9 Interpreting Canyon de Chelly: Sacred Sites and Human Rights 197

Cooperative and Family Ventures: Planning and Marketing Jeanne Simondli Lupita McClanahan 223

10 Afterword: Walking in Beauty on the Heart Path Jeanne Simonelli Katherine O'Donnell 227

Glossary of Non-English and Culture-Specific Terms 233

References 237

Index 259