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 Mart n Tilcajete has become the most critically and economically successful, surpassing those of neighbors who use similar materials and techniques.
University Of Texas Press The value of aesthetics: oaxacan woodcarvers in global economies of culture, paperback/alanna cant
