Craft Production in Complex Societies: Multicraft and Producer Perspectives

The study of craft production is a complex and challenging one that illuminates keys aspects of the material, organizational, and ideological interests, values, and capacities of a given culture. Many crafts are treated as separate, but are actually practiced concurrently and in close proximity to each other, facilitating crucial interaction. There is a need for a balanced evaluation of the roles of producer and consumer in craft production, and the importance of properly contextualized workshop excavations and the definition of the entire sequence of operation in documenting craft production both as a social and material process.Shimada, Izumi is the author of 'Craft Production in Complex Societies: Multicraft and Producer Perspectives', published 2007 under ISBN 9780874809022 and ISBN 0874809029.