Markets in Oaxaca

Cook, Scott and Martin Diskin (editors)

ISBN 10: 0292750145 / ISBN 13: 9780292750142

Published by University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 1976

xx, 329p., bibliography, index, boards. In dust jacket. Boards are Very Good; jacket has some minor edgewear and spine creasing. Former owner's stamp on front free endpaper. "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).Special publication sponsored by the Institute of Latin American Studies, the University of Texas at Austin. Edited papers from a symposium held in Tucson, Apr. 30, 1971, sponsored by the Southwestern Anthropological Association.". Seller Inventory # 333185

Synopsis:

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.

About the Author: Scott Cook is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Markets in Oaxaca
Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin, TX
Publication Date: 1976
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included