Fast, Easy, and In Cash
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A01=Jason Antrosio
A01=Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld
artisan trades
artisans
Author_Jason Antrosio
Author_Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld
baskets
big business
branding
case studies
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cheese
colombia
cultural anthropology
development
economic policy
ecuador
entrepreneurship
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global capitalism
globalization
growth economics
handmade goods
home-based
investments
latin american communities
local economies
marketing
otavalo weavers
peasant farmers
sales
small manufacturers
small-scale production
t-shirt industry
technological efficiency
tigua painters
wine
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- ISBN 9780226302614
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 14 x 22mm
- Publication Date: 30 Oct 2015
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Artisan has recently become a buzzword in the developed world, used for items like cheese, wine, and baskets, as corporations succeed at branding their cheap, mass-produced products with the popular appeal of small-batch, handmade goods. The unforgiving realities of the artisan economy, however, never left the global south, and anthropologists have worried over the fate of these craftspeople as global capitalism has again remade their cultural and economic territory. Yet artisans are proving to be surprisingly vital players in contemporary capitalism, as they interlock innovation and tradition to create effective new forms of entrepreneurship. Based on seven years of extensive research in Colombia and Ecuador, veteran ethnographers Jason Antrosio and Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld's Fast, Easy, and In Cash explores how small-scale production and global capitalism are not directly opposed, but are rather essential partners in economic development. Antrosio and Colloredo-Mansfeld demonstrate how artisan trades arrive and flourish in modern Latin American communities.
In uncertain economic environments, small manufacturers have adapted to excel at home-based production, product design, technological efficiency, and high-risk investments. Illuminating this process are vivid case studies from Ecuador and Colombia: peasant farmers in Tuquerres, Otavalo weavers, Tigua painters, and the t-shirt industry of Atuntaqui. Fast, Easy, and In Cash exposes how these ambitious artisans, far from being holdovers from the past, are crucial for capitalist innovation in their communities and provide indispensable lessons in how we should understand and cultivate local economies in this era of globalization.
Jason Antrosio is associate professor of anthropology at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld is professor and chair of anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
