{"product_id":"global-markets-and-local-crafts-frederick-f-wherry-9780801887949","title":"Global Markets and Local Crafts: Thailand and Costa Rica Compared","description":"\u003cp\u003eToday it is not uncommon to find items in department stores that are hand-crafted in countries like Thailand and Costa Rica. These \"traditional\" crafts now make up an important part of a global market. They support local and sometimes national economies and help create and solidify cultural identity. But these crafts are not necessarily indigenous. Whereas Thailand markets crafts with a long history and cultural legacy, Costa Rica has created a local handicraft tradition where none was known to exist previously.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGlobal Markets and Local Crafts\u003c\/i\u003e, Frederick F. Wherry compares the handicraft industries of Thailand and Costa Rica to show how local cultural industries break into global markets and, conversely, how global markets affect the ways in which artisans understand, adapt, and utilize their cultural traditions. Wherry develops a new framework for studying globalization by considering the phenomenon from the perspective of the supplier instead of the market. Drawing from interviews and extensive fieldwork shadowing artisans and exporters in their daily dealings, Wherry offers a rare account of globalization in motion--and what happens when market negotiations do not proceed as planned. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsidering economic and political forces, flows of people and materials, and frames that define cultural and market situations as they play out in the artisan communities of these two countries, Wherry uncovers how authentic folk tradition is capitalized or created.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frederick F. Wherry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801887941\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801887949\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/25\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.38w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2008 pg. 116","brand":"Frederick F. Wherry","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086873243903,"sku":"9780801887949","price":62.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_df322a8f-496b-4b8a-aab6-2edb3020a23a.jpg?v=1769097075","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/global-markets-and-local-crafts-frederick-f-wherry-9780801887949","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}