Book
Teitipac and its metateros: and economic anthropological study of production and exchange in a peasant artisan community in the valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
University Microfilms • Ann Arbor • Published In 1979 • Pages:
By: Cook, Scott.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study, based on 12 months' field work in 1965-1967, combines anthropological and formal economic method and theory to describe and analyse the metate industry of San Sebastian Teitipac. The author begins with the productive sphere, discussing the economic and social aspects of quarrying and stoneworking. This is followed by a discussion of the exchange sphere, including wholesaling and retailing of metates. Finally, the analysis concentrates on factors affecting price, output, and demand in the metate manufacturing and exchanging spheres. In addition to the excellent economic data on the metate industry, the author provides social and economic background material about Teitipac in general. Footnotes which appear at the end of each chapter do not always contain materials fitting the categories used in the text and have been marked only with those categories appropriate to the data they contain.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Lithic industries
- Mining and quarrying
- Retail marketing
- Internal trade
- Price and value
- Wholesale marketing
- Occupational specialization
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- History
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Zapotec
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Mexico
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Eleanor C. Swanson ; 1979-1980: John Beierle; 2007
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1965-1967
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1940-1967
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- San Sebastian Teitipac, Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Howard Scott Cook
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pittsburgh, 1968
- UM69-04093
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 342-350)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zapotec Indians