Markets in Oaxaca / edited by Scott Cook and Martin Diskin ; foreword by Sidney W. Mintz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, Scott, Author.

Contributor:

Cook, Scott, 1937- editor.

Mintz, Sidney W., writer of foreword.

Diskin, Martin, 1934- editor.

Southwestern Anthropological Association.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Markets--Mexico--Mexico--Oaxaca Valley.

Markets.

Oaxaca Valley (Mexico)--Economic conditions.

Oaxaca Valley (Mexico).

Oaxaca Valley (Mexico)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, 1976.

Summary:

Markets in Oaxaca is a study of the regional peasant marketing system in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. It relates the marketing system to other aspects of the regional economy, to neighboring regions, and to the Mexican national economy. Combining ethnographic, theoretical, and regional analyses, it suggests new directions in the fields of peasant and development studies. Contributors to the volume describe the operation and nature of several marketplaces in the region, analyze village-based artisan production and various specialized economic roles (particularly the role of traders), and describe the operation of several total regional marketing systems. The editors then consider their findings against the background of political, economic, and social structures from the pre-Conquest period to the present. In their conclusion, the editors find the regional peasant economy to be responsive both to the influence of the urban metropolitan sector, on the one hand, and to its own indigenous structural integrity and internal dynamism, on the other. In addition to the editors, the contributors to Markets in Oaxaca are Ralph L. Beals, Richard L. Berg Jr., Beverly Chiñas, Herbert M. Eder, Charlotte Stolmaker, Carole Turkenik, John C. Warner, Ronald Waterbury, and Cecil R. Welte. Their essays combine analyses of the elements of the system within a comprehensive theoretical framework. Together, they present a complete and integrated view of a peasant economy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Note to the reader

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART ONE Introduction

1. The Peasant Market Economy of the Valley of Oaxaca in Analysis and History

The Oaxaca Market Study Project: Origins, Scope, and Preliminary Findings

PART TWO The Valley System and Related Regional Systems

3. The Structure of a Peasant Market System in Oaxaca

4. Markets as Mirrors: Reflectors of the Economic Activity and the Regional Culture of Coastal Oaxaca

5. The Zoogocho Plaza System in the Sierra Zapoteca of Villa Alta

6. Survey of the Market System in the Nochixtlán Valley and the Mixteca Alta

PART THREE Producers and Marketers: Case Studies

Introduction

7. The "Market" as Location and Transaction: Dimensions of Marketing in a Zapotec Stoneworking Industry

8. Zapotec Viajeras

9. Examples of Stability and Change from Santa María Atzompa

10. The Marketplace Traders of San Antonino: A Quantitative Analysis

PART FOUR Problems in Retrospect and Prospect

11. A Historical-Ecological Approach to the Study of the Oaxaca Plaza System

12. A Concluding Critical Look at Issues of Theory and Method in Oaxaca Market Studies

APPENDIX Maps and Demographic Tables

Cecil R. Welte

Table A-1. State of Oaxaca: Population by Districts

Table A-2. Municipios within Which Plazas of the Market Studies Are Located

Map A-1. State of Oaxaca and Surroundings

Map A-2. The Central Valleys of Oaxaca

Glossary

Notes

References Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4773-0582-3

OCLC:

1286807605