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An ethnographic study of the economic and cultural impact of aesthetics, focusing on an internationally renowned workshop where Oaxacan woodcarvings, or alebrijes, are highly profitable.
[Cant] sheds light on the effects of globalization by delving into the specific case of the wood carving market in San Martín Tilcajete, Oaxaca.
Cant’s book is a welcome addition to a rich field of study, and it will take its place alongside the many volumes that preceded it. Readers in anthropology, Latin American studies, and art as well as art history, economics, and tourism will find much to recommend in The Value of Aesthetics. Cant’s style is accessible for readers at a variety of levels, from the beginner just learning about Oaxaca and craft production to the seasoned scholar engaged in the critical analysis of the role and meaning of ethnic crafts in a globalizing market system.
[Cant] sheds light on the effects of globalization by delving into the specific case of the wood carving market in San Martín Tilcajete, Oaxaca.
Cant’s book is a welcome addition to a rich field of study, and it will take its place alongside the many volumes that preceded it. Readers in anthropology, Latin American studies, and art as well as art history, economics, and tourism will find much to recommend in The Value of Aesthetics. Cant’s style is accessible for readers at a variety of levels, from the beginner just learning about Oaxaca and craft production to the seasoned scholar engaged in the critical analysis of the role and meaning of ethnic crafts in a globalizing market system.
A social anthropologist, Alanna Cant is a research associate at the University of Kent and holds a doctorate from the London School of Economics. In addition to her work with artisans, she has conducted research on contemporary Catholicism and the restoration of a sixteenth-century Dominican monastery in rural Oaxaca. She has studied and worked in anthropology in Canada, Germany, Norway, and the United Kingdom, and her findings have appeared in the volume Critical Craft: Technology, Globalization, and Capitalism as well as Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, Visual Anthropology, and The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.