The Peasant Marketing System Of Oaxaca Mexico

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This monograph summarizes the findings of a detailed anthropological study of an extensive traditional marketing system and its modern transformations. The major questions considered are (1) the scope and structure of the system, (2) its functioning, and (3) its responses to the relatively recent impact of a modernizing and industrializing national economy.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Ralph L. Beals
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release : 2022-05-27
File : 430 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780520319424


The Peasant Marketing System Of Oaxaca Mexico

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Ralph L. Beals
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release : 2023-11-10
File : 430 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780520319431


Social Inequality In Oaxaca

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Analyzes the urbanization of one area from its origins more than two thousand years ago. This book examines Oaxaca, Mexico, paying particular attention to neighborhoods, families and economic activities, and focuses on issues of poverty and inequality.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Arthur D. Murphy
Publisher : Temple University Press
Release : 1991
File : 316 Pages
ISBN-13 : 087722868X


Revolution

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Genre : Political science
Author : Rosemary H. T. O'Kane
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release : 2000
File : 566 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0415201357


Cultural Capital

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This book shows how Zapotec peasants migrating to Mexico City utilize paisanazgo--which prescribes solidarity among people from the same locale--as the basis for cooperation and mutual aid within a new environment. This study focuses on three groups of Mountain Zapotecs to explain why migrant associations were created and why they took different forms, citing regional variations in ethnicity, solidarity, occupational pursuits, and sociopolitical articulation to the nation in the three points of origin.

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Genre : History
Author : Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Release : 2014-12-15
File : 174 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780816531707


Crafts In The World Market

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The growing exchange of traditional craft objects in world markets has had a profound impact on the lives of the women and men who produce them. These essays describe how the flow of goods from the industrial centers of the world to the colonies in earlier centuries is now met by a reverse flow as consumers seek the exotic and unique objects of handicraft production in Third World countries. The book explores the paradox of how artisans continue to create traditional objects, yet new sources of wealth and intensified production are transforming their traditional lifeways in areas such as the Oaxaca Valley, the Yucatan, Highland Chiapas, and Guatemala.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : June C. Nash
Publisher : SUNY Press
Release : 1993-01-01
File : 280 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0791410617


Strong Societies And Weak States

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Why do many Asian, African, and Latin American states have such difficulty in directing the behavior of their populations--in spite of the resources at their disposal? And why do a small number of other states succeed in such control? What effect do failing laws and social policies have on the state itself? In answering these questions, Joel Migdal takes a new look at the role of the state in the third world. Strong Societies and Weak States offers a fresh approach to the study of state-society relations and to the possibilities for economic and political reforms in the third world. In Asia, Africa, and Latin America, state institutions have established a permanent presence among the populations of even the most remote villages. A close look at the performance of these agencies, however, reveals that often they operate on principles radically different from those conceived by their founders and creators in the capital city. Migdal proposes an answer to this paradox: a model of state-society relations that highlights the state's struggle with other social organizations and a theory that explains the differing abilities of states to predominate in those struggles.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Joel S. Migdal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Release : 2020-05-05
File : 320 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780691212852


Mexico And The Caribbean Under Castro S Eyes

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This book provides a first-hand account of the author’s encounters as a social geographer, based on his field research and travels in Mexico and the Caribbean. The interlocutors of different classes and races introduce the reader to a variety of urban and rural communities, many of them involved in development projects. Two leitmotifs of the 1960s and 1970s recur throughout the volume: decolonization, state formation, and the quest for democracy in the post-colonial societies of Mexico and the Caribbean; and the conditions which were likely to constrain or challenge these developments, quintessentially associated with the 1959 Cuban revolution, the cold war and student radicalism.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Colin Clarke
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2018-07-16
File : 273 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783319771700


Federico

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From the day he was born, Federico Jiménez Caballero was predicted to be a successful man. So, how exactly did a young boy from Tututepec, Oaxaca, become a famous Indigenous jewelry artist and philanthropist in Los Angeles? Federico tells the remarkable story of willpower, curiosity, hard work, and passion coming together to change one man’s life forever. As a child growing up in a small rural town in southern Mexico, Federico Jiménez Caballero faced challenges that most of us cannot imagine, let alone overcome. From a young age, Federico worked tirelessly to contribute to his large family, yet his restless spirit often got him into trouble. Finding himself in the middle of a village-wide catastrophe, he was exiled to a boarding school in Oaxaca City where he was forced to become independent, resilient, and razor-sharp in order to stay afloat. Through his incredible people skills, bravery, and a few nudges from his bold mother, Federico found himself excelling in his studies and climbing the ranks in Oaxaca City. He always held a deep love and respect for his Mixtec Indigenous roots and began to collect Indigenous jewelry and textiles. Through a series of well-timed connections, Federico met his wife Ellen, and, shortly afterward, he came to the United States as a researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the late 1960s. Carrying his passion for Indigenous jewelry with him from Oaxaca, Federico owned a series of shops in Los Angeles and sold jewelry at flea markets to well-known Hollywood stars. Over the years, he cultivated relationships and became a philanthropist as well as the owner of a museum in Oaxaca City. This book is the inspiring first-person account of eighty years in the life of a man who moved from humble beginnings to the bright lights of Hollywood, following his passion and creating long-lasting relationships as he climbed the ladder of success.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Federico Jiménez Caballero
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Release : 2021-04-06
File : 265 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780816540785


Runaway Daughters

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Against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Oaxaca City, Kathryn Sloan analyzes rapto trials--cases of abduction and/or seduction of a minor--to gain insight beyond the actual crime and into the reality that testimonies by parents, their children, and witnesses reveal about courtship practices, generational conflict, the negotiation of honor, and the relationship between the state and its working-class citizens in post colonial Mexico. Unlike the colonial era where paternal rule was absolute, Sloan found that the state began to usurp parental authority in the home with the introduction of liberal reform laws. As these laws began to shape the terms of civil marriage, the courtroom played a more significant role in the resolution of familial power struggles and the restoration of family honor in rapto cases. Youths could now exert a measure of independence by asserting their rights to marry whom they wished. In examining these growing rifts between the liberal state and familial order within its lower order citizens, Sloan highlights the role that youths and the working class played in refashioning systems of marriage, honor, sexuality, parental authority, and filial obedience.

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Genre : History
Author : Kathryn A. Sloan
Publisher : UNM Press
Release : 2008-11-15
File : 257 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780826344786