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

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

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.

Author Biography

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.