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Industrialization

Feitosa in the backcountry. Artisans known as seleiros made the leather gear he wears from head to toe to protect him from the brush.

Endangered Trades

By Nadia Shira Cohen, Photography by Nadia Shira Cohen, Paulo Siqueira

Fall 2015

In northeast Brazil, artisans struggle to compete with the modern world.