An Overview of the Botswana Handicraft Sector

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Title:	An Overview of the Botswana Handicraft Sector
Author:	Terry, M. Elizabeth
Year:	2001
Periodical:	Botswana Notes and Records (ISSN 0525-5090)
Volume:	33
Pages:	129-143
Language:	English
Notes:	biblio. refs., ills.
Geographic terms:	Botswana Southern Africa
Subjects:	crafts Development and Technology Economics and Trade Labor and Employment Architecture and the Arts Art, Architecture, Music, Drama Handicrafts informal sector Sex Roles
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/40980303
Abstract:	The commercial production and marketing of handicraft products from Botswana has been taking place for the past three decades. Botswana currently has approximately 5,000 craft producers; just over 50 production units; and about 50 marketing outlets. Of the 5,000 individual producers, 84 percent produce traditional crafts and the rest contemporary products; 86 percent work informally rather than using formal production methods; 77 percent are women; 93 percent work in rural areas. This paper presents the broad characteristics of Botswana's handicraft producers, products, raw materials used in craft production, and marketing structures. The overview has been compiled from knowledge obtained during the period 1982-1993 while the author worked directly in the Botswana craft industry, and from data collected for her PhD thesis on the economic and social significance of Botswana's handicraft industry. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract]