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This paper attempts to look at craft as a common link between communities and the basis for cultural mobility and cultural exchange. The significant point that one can draw from the paper is the ways that craft communities respond to external stress. The paper delineates the links and relationships between communities which are socially embedded. Each change and response to change is hence relational and embedded in the communities themselves.
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Velayudhan, M. (2016). Pluralist Traditions, Craft Communities and Development Dialogues in Kachchh (Gujarat, western India). In: Re-thinking Diversity. Management – Culture – Interpretation. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-11502-9_13
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