The Value of AestheticsUnlike 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 familys workshop in the village of San Martn Tilcajete has become the most critically and economically successful, surpassing those of neighbors who use similar