Markets in Oaxaca

by Scott Cook and Martin Diskin

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292750145
• ISBN13: 9780292750142
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.