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Good, Catharine Louise.

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Work and exchange in Nahuatl society: Local values and the dynamics of an indigenous economy.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Work and exchange in Nahuatl society: Local values and the dynamics of an indigenous economy./
Author:	Good, Catharine Louise.
Description:	538 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-05, Section: A, page: 1858.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International54-05A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Physical. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9327608

Work and exchange in Nahuatl society: Local values and the dynamics of an indigenous economy.
Good, Catharine Louise.

Work and exchange in Nahuatl society: Local values and the dynamics of an indigenous economy. - 538 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-05, Section: A, page: 1858.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 1993.

This dissertation analyzes the successful development of Indian-controlled commerce in crafts for tourists. Nahuatl-speaking villagers from the Balsas River Valley (Guerrero State, Mexico) have long been merchants. Since the early 1960s they began making bark cloth paintings (amate) and selling them as itinerant vendors. They have become successful entrepreneurs, operating in diverse markets throughout Mexico and handling substantial cash income. This study focuses on the social organization of their commerce and the cultural assumptions underlying how the merchants reinvest their wealth. Contrary to much of the ethnographic literature on peasants, modernization, ethnicity and nationalism in Latin America, it argues that Nahuas have not assimilated into Mexico's post-Revolutionary national culture. The merchants have invested some of their wealth in housing, livestock, farmland and commerce to secure their economic base. They invest major portions of it in exchange relations which strengthen social relationships and reciprocity networks throughout the region. This has enabled them to maintain and reproduce their collective identity as a Nahuatl people.Subjects--Topical Terms:

877524
Anthropology, Physical.

Work and exchange in Nahuatl society: Local values and the dynamics of an indigenous economy.
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520 $a The analysis traces how Nahua theories of work, exchange and history enable them to interact with tourists in urban areas while reformulating their own cultural identity. The dissertation explores the following aspects of life in this Nahuatl region: domestic organization, milpa agriculture, artistic production, commercial strategies, community government, house construction and mortuary practices. It documents how money obtained through trade with international tourism stimulates expanding local-level gift exchange in the Balsas River Valley.
520 $a The dissertation includes a critique of the conceptual stereotypes about Indians prevalent in much of the scholarship in Mesoamerica. It draws on comparative ethnography from Melanesia and the Andean region and argues for reformulating the theoretical approaches used in Mesoamerica to study economy, culture, and processes of culture change. The data presented will be useful for comparative research on indigenous peoples, informal sector activities, micro-enterprises, arts and crafts production, tourism, the social organization of work, the effects of money and commodities on native economies, and gift exchange systems.
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