Markets in Oaxaca - Couverture souple

Cook, Scott; Diskin, Martin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 147730116X ISBN 13 : 9781477301166

Editeur : University of Texas Press, 1975

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Scott Cook is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Martin Diskin (1935-1997) was Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Texas Press
• Date d'édition: 1975
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 147730116X
• ISBN 13: 9781477301166
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 350
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible