Ancestral knowledge in the artisanal sector and its socioeconomic benefits in the state of Tabasco

This article examines the relationship between ancestral knowledge, artisanal production, and socioeconomic benefits in Tabasco through an integrative review of academic literature and official documents. The corpus covers embroidered strips, plant fibers, wood carving, drum making, and workshop organization, together with cultural statistics, legislation, and public programs. Findings show that craft knowledge functions as a territorial asset: it preserves memory and identity, mobilizes local materials and family networks, creates self-employment and supplementary income, and strengthens women's economic agency. Evidence from Nacajuca documents family-based value chains, intergenerational transmission, and high female participation. Yet the sector faces informality, intermediation, weak cost accounting, a digital divide, industrial imitation, input scarcity, and insufficient protection of collective designs. A socioeconomic benefit model is proposed that links community-led safeguarding, business capabilities, authenticity, marketing, and governance. The article concludes that sustainable profitability requires recognizing communities as knowledge holders and distributing value fairly without separating products from the cultural and ecological processes that make them possible.