Surviving Desires: Making and Selling Native Jewellery in the American Southwest

In its classic union of gleaming silver and blue turquoise, Native American jewellery of the Southwest is an iconic art form. Internationally recognized and locally significant, Native American jewellery has a compelling history—it represents the persistence of tradition while encapsulating the vitality of Native American communities and the continuously transforming nature of the jewellery makers’ art.

Author Henrietta Lidchi focuses on jewellery in the cultural economy of the Southwest, e...