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.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2009
- Region
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub Region
- Central Mexico
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Eleanor C. Swanson ; 1979-1980: John Beierle; 2007
- Field Date
- 1965-1967
- Coverage Date
- 1940-1967
- Coverage Place
- San Sebastian Teitipac, Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
- Notes
- Howard Scott Cook
- UM69-04093
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 342-350)
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pittsburgh, 1968
- LCSH
- Zapotec Indians