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FLORES-MONTES, Julieta. Unique Commodities. Ideological Fantasy of Craft Textiles Production. LiminaR [online]. 2020, vol.18, n.1, pp.49-60.  Epub 15-Mayo-2020. ISSN 2007-8900.  https://doi.org/10.29043/liminar.v18i1.730.

In this study, I examine how textiles are made into unique commodities by attributing certain qualities to them, such as their esthetics, the culture they represent, their origin, and the ethnicity of the artisans. Through an ethnographic analysis in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, I documented the way in which new intermediaries promote these qualities in the textiles, while adding marketing criteria that further distinguish them, such as transparency in the ways they are made and fair payment to producers. Based on these considerations, I argue that to varying degrees artisans, intermediaries, and consumers who consider handmade textiles as unique, reproduce an ideological fantasy that in turn replicates particular forms of exploitation.

Palabras llave : ideological fantasy; textiles; crafts; trading intermediaries; fair trade.

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