Lecturer in Social Anthropology
Department of Archaeology
University of Reading
Peer Reviewed Publications
Monograph
The Value of Aesthetics: Oaxacan woodcarvers in global economies of culture. 2019. University of Texas Press
Read reviews by Jeffrey Cohen in American Ethnologist and
Michele Feder-Nadoff in The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Journal Articles & Book Chapters
2024. Material Historicity: rethinking objects through the mis/recognition of a Catholic saint. History and Anthropology [open access via link].
2023. 'Writing Practices' and Writing 'Practices': observation and struggle in fieldnotes about artisanal work.' In C. Bose and M. Mohsini, eds. Encountering Craft: Methodological Approaches from Anthropology, Art History, and Design. Abingdon: Routledge. (Download text only)
2021. Participatory Research in Mesoamerica and Data Protection in Europe (and elsewhere). Annals of Anthropological Practice 44(3): 152-156. [Open access via link].
2020. The Politics of Craft and Working Without Skill. In. D. Wood, ed. Craft Is Political: Economic, social and technological Contexts. London: Bloomsbury. (Download text only)
2018. “Making” Hierarchies of Labour in Mexican Artisanal Workshops.’ Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 24(S1): S61-S74. (Download text only)
2016. The Art of Indigeneity: aesthetics and competition in Mexican economies of culture. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology 81(1): 152-177. (Download text only)
2016. Who Authors Crafts? Producing woodcarvings and authorship in Oaxaca, Mexico. Critical Craft: Technology, Globalization and Capitalism Clare Wilkinson-Weber and Alicia Ory de Nicola (eds). London: Bloomsbury, pp. 19-34. (Download text only)
2015. The Allure of Art and Intellectual Property: artisans and industrial replicas in Mexican cultural economies. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 21(4): 820-837. (Download text only)
2015. One Image, Two Stories: Ethnographic and Touristic Photography and the Practice of Craft in Mexico’ Visual Anthropology 28 (4): 277-285. (Download text only)