Markets in Oaxaca

<p><i>Markets in Oaxaca</i> 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>In addition to the editors the contributors to <i>Markets in Oaxaca</i> 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.</p>