Miniature Crafts and their Makers. Palm Weaving in a Mexican Town. KATRIN S. FLECHSIG, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004.

Abstract

This book makes a significant contribution to Mexican studies in two ways: as an analysis of craft production and marketing by rural, indigenous artisans from one village in the state of Puebla, and as a case study of Mixtec-speaking peoples based on serious ethnographic fieldwork. Miniature Crafts and their Makers is well written and amply illustrated: it includes useful maps and tables, 35 black and white photographs and 8 color plates, many of them illustrating the author's points about the development of palm weaving styles.