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Crafting and craft objects intersect with all cultural domains:
economic, social, political, and rituall. Craft goods are social
objects that assume an importance beyond household maintenance and
reproduction. They signify and legitimize group membership and
social roles, and become reserves of wealth, storing intrinsically
valuable materials and the labor invested in their manufacture.
Specialized craft producers are actors involved in the creation and
maintenance of social networks, wealth, and social legitimacy.
Artisans and consumers must accept, create or negotiate the social
legitimacy of production and the conditions of production and
distribution, usually defined in terms of social identity. The
nature of that process defines the organization of production and
the social relations of production systems and explanations for
their form and dynamic are destined to be unidimensional and
unidirectional, lacking in key elements of social process and
social behavior. This volume addresses the questions of artisan
identify, social identify, and what these inquiries contribute to
understandings about social organization and economic organization.
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