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  title info:
    title: The Value of Aesthetics
    sub title: Oaxacan Woodcarvers in Global Economies of Culture
  name:
    name part: Cant, Alanna
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: aut
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx#
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: Unlike many other handicrafts in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, which have long cultural and historical trajectories, Oaxacan woodcarving began in the second half of the twentieth century and has always been done for the commercial market. In The Value of Aesthetics, Alanna Cant explores how one family’s workshop in the village of San Martín Tilcajete has become the most critically and economically successful, surpassing those of neighbors who use similar materials and techniques. The dominance of this family is tied to their ability to produce a new aesthetic that appeals to three key “economies of culture”: the tourist market for souvenirs, the national market for traditional Mexican artesanías, and the international market for indigenous art. Offering a new analytical model by which anthropologists can approach visual aesthetics and conceptualize the power of artworks as socially active objects, The Value of Aesthetics shows how aesthetic practices produce and redefine social and political relationships. By investigating the links between aesthetics and issues of production, authorship, ownership, and identity, Cant shows aesthetic change to be a process that ultimately repackages everyday life into commodified objects in Oaxaca
  note: Alanna Cant
  subject:
    topic: Aesthetics / Economic aspects / Mexico / Tilcajete
  subject:
    topic: Culture / Economic aspects / Mexico / Tilcajete
  subject:
    topic: Indian wood-carving / Mexico / Tilcajete
  subject:
    topic: Indians of Mexico / Material culture / Mexico / Tilcajete
  subject:
    topic: Wood-carving industry / Mexico / Tilcajete
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
  identifier: 9781477318829
  identifier: 2018055517
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.7560/318805
  identifier: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477318829
  identifier: https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477318829/original
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  record info:
    record content source: EBA-deGruyter
    record creation date: 210927
    record change date: 20250109102454.0
    record identifier: 99371013933506441
    language of cataloging:
      language term: ger