Scott Cook

Curious Gorge

Presents wide-ranging and up-to-date interpretations of the Zhuangzi, the Daoist classic and one of the most elusive works ever written.

Uneven Discourses on the Zhuangzi

Hiding the World in the World

NZ Frenzy

NZ Frenzy A Travel Guide to New Zealand featuring Waterfalls, Beaches, Hot Springs, Mountains, and Trails

Martin Diskin

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.

Markets in Oaxaca

Examines social relations, land ownership, and artisan trades in rural Oaxaca villages.

Oaxaca Valley Communities in History

Land, Livelihood, and Civility in Southern Mexico

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

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