Henrietta Lidchi

Surviving Desires: Making and Selling Jewellery in the American Southwest Henrietta Lidchi

Situating jewellery in the cultural economy of the American Southwest, this publication explores Southwestern jewellery as a decorative form in constant transition. It describes this rich tradition as subject to a number of desires, fostered and regulated, at different times, by government agencies, individual entrepreneurs, traders, curators and Native American communities.