Scott J Cook
Biographic Data
| ID | 1071191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott J Cook |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott J |
| FAMILY NAME | Cook |
| SIGNATURE | COOK S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0869-5137 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 447 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Potholes, 311 reports, and a theory of heterogeneous resident demand for city services
Understanding the needs of residents is vital in public administration and management, as this helps officials when making choices on policies and service distribution. Increasingly, cities rely on 311 systems to elicit information from residents on emergent needs in particular policy areas (e.g., road quality, pest control). For residents, 311 systems provide a low‐cost means of voicing concerns, whereas for public officials and researchers, the…
All about the Rites: From Canonised Ritual to Ritualised Society
This third volume of the “Myriades d’Asies” series is the result of an international conference which was held at the Collège de France in 2018, and published in book form by Hémisphères Editions in 2021, the present digital edition being a revised and improved version of the printed edition. It intends to look afresh at the way ancient China progressively evolved into a ritualistic society, that is a world in which social interactions in times o…
The Politics of Police Data: State Legislative Capacity and the Transparency of State and Substate Agencies
Police, like other bureaucratic agencies, are responsible for collecting and disseminating policy-relevant data. Nonetheless, critical data, including killings by police, often go unreported. We argue that this is due in part to the limited oversight capacity of legislative bodies to whom police are accountable. Although many local assemblies lack the means for effective oversight, well-resourced state legislatures may induce transparency from st…
STADL Up! The Spatiotemporal Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model for TSCS Data Analysis
Time-series cross-section (TSCS) data are prevalent in political science, yet many distinct challenges presented by TSCS data remain underaddressed. We focus on how dependence in both space and time complicates estimating either spatial or temporal dependence, dynamics, and effects. Little is known about how modeling one of temporal or cross-sectional dependence well while neglecting the other affects results in TSCS analysis. We demonstrate anal…
Race to the bottom: Spatial aggregation and event data
Researchers now have greater access to granular georeferenced (i.e., spatial) data on social and political phenomena than ever before. Such data have seen wide use, as they offer the potential for researchers to analyze local phenomena, test mechanisms, and better understand micro-level behavior. With these political event data, it has become increasingly common for researchers to select the smallest spatial scale permitted by the data. We argue …
Bias from Network Misspecification Under Spatial Dependence
The prespecification of the network is one of the biggest hurdles for applied researchers in undertaking spatial analysis. In this letter, we demonstrate two results. First, we derive bounds for the bias in nonspatial models with omitted spatially-lagged predictors or outcomes. These bias expressions can be obtained without prior knowledge of the network, and are more informative than familiar omitted variable bias formulas. Second, we derive bou…
Lagged Outcomes, Lagged Predictors, and Lagged Errors: A Clarification on Common Factors
Debate on the use of lagged dependent variables has a long history in political science. The latest contribution to this discussion is Wilkins (2018, Political Science Research and Methods, 6, 393–411), which advocates the use of an ADL(2,1) model when there is serial dependence in the outcome and disturbance. While this specification does offer some insurance against serially correlated disturbances, this is never the best (linear unbiased estim…
Reply to Hudson and Matfess
Spatial interdependence and instrumental variable models
Instrumental variable (IV) methods are widely used to address endogeneity concerns. Yet, a specific kind of endogeneity – spatial interdependence – is regularly ignored. We show that ignoring spatial interdependence in the outcome results in asymptotically biased estimates even when instruments are randomly assigned. The extent of this bias increases when the instrument is also spatially clustered, as is the case for many widely used instruments:…
Fixed effects in rare events data: A Penalized Maximum Likelihood Solution
Most agree that models of binary time-series-cross-sectional data in political science often possess unobserved unit-level heterogeneity. Despite this, there is no clear consensus on how best to account for these potential unit effects, with many of the issues confronted seemingly misunderstood. For example, one oft-discussed concern with rare events data is the elimination of no-event units from the sample when estimating fixed effects models. M…
In plain sight? Reconsidering the linkage between brideprice and violent conflict
Persistent brideprice inflation has been linked to greater political violence. However, empirically testing this argument is complicated by the paucity of data on brideprice. We argue that despite the lack of over-time brideprice data, one can proxy for variation in marriage markets using changes to population, economic growth, and marriage rates themselves, thereby offering a clearer test of the brideprice–violence relationship. Our analysis sug…
Beyond Policy Diffusion: Spatial Econometric Models of Public Administration
Interdependence in the decision-making or behaviors of various organizations and administrators is often neglected in the study of public administration. Failing to account for such interdependence risks an incomplete understanding of the choices made by these actors and agencies. As such, we show how researchers analyzing cross-sectional or time-series-cross-sectional (TSCS) data can utilize spatial econometric methods to improve inference on ex…
Lost in Aggregation: Improving Event Analysis with Report‐Level Data
Most measures of social conflict processes are derived from primary and secondary source reports. In many cases, reports are used to create event‐level data sets by aggregating information from multiple, and often conflicting, reports to single event observations. We argue that this pre‐aggregation is less innocuous than it seems, costing applied researchers opportunities for improved inference. First, researchers cannot evaluate the consequences…
A warning on separation in multinomial logistic models
Oppenheim et al. (2015) provides the first empirical analysis of insurgent defection during armed rebellion, estimating a series of multinomial logit models of continued rebel participation using a survey of ex-combatants in Colombia. Unfortunately, many of the main results from this analysis are an artifact of separation in these data – that is, one or more of the covariates perfectly predicts the outcome. We demonstrate that this can be identif…
On the Use and Abuse of Spatial Instruments
Instruments based on realizations of the endogenous variable in other units—for instance, regional or global weighted averages—are commonly used in political science. Such spatial instruments have proved attractive: they are convenient to obtain, typically have power, and are plausibly exogenous. We argue that the assumptions underlying spatial instruments remain poorly understood and challenge whether spatial instruments can satisfy the conditio…
The “critical current” in Mexican social anthropology vs. the indigenista establishment in the aftermath of the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre: An outsider’s view
Two Wrongs Make a Right: Addressing Underreporting in Binary Data from Multiple Sources
Media-based event data—i.e., data comprised from reporting by media outlets—are widely used in political science research. However, events of interest (e.g., strikes, protests, conflict) are often underreported by these primary and secondary sources, producing incomplete data that risks inconsistency and bias in subsequent analysis. While general strategies exist to help ameliorate this bias, these methods do not make full use of the information …
Malinowski in Oaxaca: Implications of an unfinished project in economic anthropology, Part II
A careful reading of the preliminary report of Malinowski's unfinished Oaxaca project reveals an implicit template for future research that isolated production in constituent village units within the regional market system as keys to understanding flows of commodity value through markets to meet consumption needs throughout the system. Malinowski's field notebooks for 1941 show that follow-up research was conducted in several peasant-artisan comm…
Malinowski in Oaxaca: Implications of an unfinished project in economic anthropology, part I
Malinowski's unpublished and long unavailable field notebooks from 1940 are examined to show how his fieldwork influenced the organization and content of the co-authored preliminary report (with Julio de la Fuente) of his unfinished Oaxaca Valley, Mexico project. The personal and diplomatic background of Malinowski's Oaxaca project is reviewed, together with the origins and development of his views on economics before, during, and after his field…
Spatial- and Spatiotemporal-Autoregressive Probit Models of Interdependent Binary Outcomes
Spatial/spatiotemporal interdependence—that is, that outcomes, actions or choices of some unit-times depend on those of other unit-times—is substantively important and empirically ubiquitous in binary outcomes of interest across the social sciences. Estimating and interpreting binary-outcome models that incorporate such spatial/spatiotemporal dynamics directly is difficult and rarely attempted, however. This article explains the inferential chall…
Malinowski, Herskovits, and the Controversy Over Economics in Anthropology
Bronislaw Malinowski and Melville Herskovits were founding contributors to the anthropological study of economic life-Malinowski as a pioneering ethnographer in Melanesia and a late-career ethnographer in Oaxaca, Mexico, and Herskovits as the leading exponent of comparative studies. The definition of their respective approaches to the study of economic life began in the 1940s with Karl Polanyi and in the 1950s with Raymond Firth, culminating in t…
New democracies and the risk of civil conflict: The lasting legacy of military rule
Existing theories of regime transitions suggest that new democracies are more prone to political violence than consolidated democracies. We contend that this risk varies based on the political legacy of the new regime. Specifically, we argue that the prior authoritarian regime influences the risk of conflict in new democracies by shaping the nature of the post-transition political environment. In democracies following military rule, the former au…
Confucius as Seen through the Lenses of the Zuo zhuan and Lunyu
While the Lunyu has traditionally been seen as the most authoritative source of Confucius’s thought, it is far from our only such source. Others, such as the Zuo zhuan , are no less important to any examination of Confucius’s life and philosophy, and yet they appear to portray the Master with a different agenda in mind. In an attempt to explore these differences, this essay first categorizes the various references to and citations of Confucius in…
New Appointments
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Commodity Cultures, Mesoamerica and Mexico's Changing Indigenous Economy
A case is argued for the constitutive role of commodity value (use + exchange + symbolic), and its shifting triangulations, in Mesoamerican and Mexican indigenous culture. This role cross-cuts historical epochs but assumes more pervasive influence historically in proportion to the spread of integrative markets and monetization. Given their commodity value matrix, indigenous direct-producing subjects, yesterday and today, are assumed to economize,…
The Obsolete "Anti-Market" Mentality: A Critique of the Substantive Approach to Economic Anthropology
Analytic work begins with material provided by our vision of things, and this vision is ideological almost by definition. It embodies the picture of things as we see them, and wherever there is any possible motive for wishing to see them in a given rather than another light, the way in which we see things can hardly be distinguished from the nay in which we wish to see them. The more honest and naive our vision is, the more dangerous it is to the…
Behavioral Analysis and the Structure of a Prehistoric Industry [and Comments and Reply]
Assuming that aboriginal behavior was recorded on chipped-stone implements and debitage, and assuming that the analyst can train himself to recognize and interpret that record, then a classification of lithic artifacts based on manufacturing behavior may be considered an inherent classification. Lithic behavioral classification is examined from the perspective of other archaeological classifications as well as from general taxonomic theory. Advan…
Fixed effects in rare events data: A Penalized Maximum Likelihood Solution
Most agree that models of binary time-series-cross-sectional data in political science often possess unobserved unit-level heterogeneity. Despite this, there is no clear consensus on how best to account for these potential unit effects, with many of the issues confronted seemingly misunderstood. For example, one oft-discussed concern with rare events data is the elimination of no-event units from the sample when estimating fixed effects models. M…
On the Use and Abuse of Spatial Instruments
Instruments based on realizations of the endogenous variable in other units—for instance, regional or global weighted averages—are commonly used in political science. Such spatial instruments have proved attractive: they are convenient to obtain, typically have power, and are plausibly exogenous. We argue that the assumptions underlying spatial instruments remain poorly understood and challenge whether spatial instruments can satisfy the conditio…
Spatial interdependence and instrumental variable models
Instrumental variable (IV) methods are widely used to address endogeneity concerns. Yet, a specific kind of endogeneity – spatial interdependence – is regularly ignored. We show that ignoring spatial interdependence in the outcome results in asymptotically biased estimates even when instruments are randomly assigned. The extent of this bias increases when the instrument is also spatially clustered, as is the case for many widely used instruments:…
Peasant economy, rural industry and capitalist development in the Oaxaca Valley, Mexico
This article examines the dynamics of rural industrial commodity production in capitalist development. Data from fieldwork in the Oaxaca Valley, Mexico, are presented and analysed around issues such as the relationship between agriculture and industry, factors influencing the incidence of rural industrial production (between households, communities and districts), the role of household demographics in rural industry, the difference between simple…
Two Wrongs Make a Right: Addressing Underreporting in Binary Data from Multiple Sources
Media-based event data—i.e., data comprised from reporting by media outlets—are widely used in political science research. However, events of interest (e.g., strikes, protests, conflict) are often underreported by these primary and secondary sources, producing incomplete data that risks inconsistency and bias in subsequent analysis. While general strategies exist to help ameliorate this bias, these methods do not make full use of the information …
Spatial- and Spatiotemporal-Autoregressive Probit Models of Interdependent Binary Outcomes
Spatial/spatiotemporal interdependence—that is, that outcomes, actions or choices of some unit-times depend on those of other unit-times—is substantively important and empirically ubiquitous in binary outcomes of interest across the social sciences. Estimating and interpreting binary-outcome models that incorporate such spatial/spatiotemporal dynamics directly is difficult and rarely attempted, however. This article explains the inferential chall…
Price and Output Variability in a Peasant‐Artisan Stoneworking Industry in Oaxaca, Mexico: An Analytical Essay in Economic Anthropology 1
This paper presents and analyzes data collected among metateros (metate or quern makers) who live in a Zapotec village in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, and who sell their products on a weekly basis in the Oaxaca City marketplace. The analysis shows that metate output correlates closely with both “market” and “nonmarket” factors, that is, with supply, demand, and price conditions, on the one hand, and with seasonal, ecological, and cultural condit…
Beyond Policy Diffusion: Spatial Econometric Models of Public Administration
Interdependence in the decision-making or behaviors of various organizations and administrators is often neglected in the study of public administration. Failing to account for such interdependence risks an incomplete understanding of the choices made by these actors and agencies. As such, we show how researchers analyzing cross-sectional or time-series-cross-sectional (TSCS) data can utilize spatial econometric methods to improve inference on ex…
Production, ecology and economic anthropology: Notes toward an integrated frame of reference
Lost in Aggregation: Improving Event Analysis with Report‐Level Data
Most measures of social conflict processes are derived from primary and secondary source reports. In many cases, reports are used to create event‐level data sets by aggregating information from multiple, and often conflicting, reports to single event observations. We argue that this pre‐aggregation is less innocuous than it seems, costing applied researchers opportunities for improved inference. First, researchers cannot evaluate the consequences…
Beyond the Formen: Towards a revised Marxist theory of precapitalist formations and the transition to capitalism
Stone Tools for Steel-Age Mexicans? Aspects of Production in a Zapotec Stoneworking Industry1
This paper has three aims: (1) to describe in some detail selected aspects of the technology, work organization and production activity of the metateros (metate makers) of the Oaxaca Valley, Mexico, as well as to speculate about aspects of their past technology and work organization; (2) to encourage cultural anthropologists and archaeologists to be more explicit and systematic in considering material artifacts from a production perspective which…
The Politics of Police Data: State Legislative Capacity and the Transparency of State and Substate Agencies
Police, like other bureaucratic agencies, are responsible for collecting and disseminating policy-relevant data. Nonetheless, critical data, including killings by police, often go unreported. We argue that this is due in part to the limited oversight capacity of legislative bodies to whom police are accountable. Although many local assemblies lack the means for effective oversight, well-resourced state legislatures may induce transparency from st…
The Economic Systems of Ancient Oaxaca: A Regional Perspective [and Comments and Reply]
Archaeological data from a regional settlement pattern survey of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, are used to monitor how scarce goods and resources were allocated to members of society through eight phases from 600 B.C. to A.D. 1520. The goal is to determine how distinct historical social structures performed economically in terms of the goods and resources recoverable archaeologically. Measures utilized include land use and settlement characterist…
New democracies and the risk of civil conflict: The lasting legacy of military rule
Existing theories of regime transitions suggest that new democracies are more prone to political violence than consolidated democracies. We contend that this risk varies based on the political legacy of the new regime. Specifically, we argue that the prior authoritarian regime influences the risk of conflict in new democracies by shaping the nature of the post-transition political environment. In democracies following military rule, the former au…
Value, price, and simple commodity production: The case of the Zapotec stoneworkers∗
The concepts of 'commodity' and of 'simple commodity production' in the work of Marx and his interpreters are examined as a necessary departure point for the analysis of value and price in a Mexican peasant-artisan stoneworking industry. The labour theory of value, which posits a close relationship between market price and average embodied labour cost of commodities in a peasant-artisan economy, is applied to the stone-working industry and is sho…
A warning on separation in multinomial logistic models
Oppenheim et al. (2015) provides the first empirical analysis of insurgent defection during armed rebellion, estimating a series of multinomial logit models of continued rebel participation using a survey of ex-combatants in Colombia. Unfortunately, many of the main results from this analysis are an artifact of separation in these data – that is, one or more of the covariates perfectly predicts the outcome. We demonstrate that this can be identif…
STADL Up! The Spatiotemporal Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model for TSCS Data Analysis
Time-series cross-section (TSCS) data are prevalent in political science, yet many distinct challenges presented by TSCS data remain underaddressed. We focus on how dependence in both space and time complicates estimating either spatial or temporal dependence, dynamics, and effects. Little is known about how modeling one of temporal or cross-sectional dependence well while neglecting the other affects results in TSCS analysis. We demonstrate anal…
Race to the bottom: Spatial aggregation and event data
Researchers now have greater access to granular georeferenced (i.e., spatial) data on social and political phenomena than ever before. Such data have seen wide use, as they offer the potential for researchers to analyze local phenomena, test mechanisms, and better understand micro-level behavior. With these political event data, it has become increasingly common for researchers to select the smallest spatial scale permitted by the data. We argue …
Malinowski, Herskovits, and the Controversy Over Economics in Anthropology
Bronislaw Malinowski and Melville Herskovits were founding contributors to the anthropological study of economic life-Malinowski as a pioneering ethnographer in Melanesia and a late-career ethnographer in Oaxaca, Mexico, and Herskovits as the leading exponent of comparative studies. The definition of their respective approaches to the study of economic life began in the 1940s with Karl Polanyi and in the 1950s with Raymond Firth, culminating in t…
General: Primitive, Archaic, and Modern Economies: Essays of Karl Polanyi . G eorge D alton , ed
Commodity Cultures, Mesoamerica and Mexico's Changing Indigenous Economy
A case is argued for the constitutive role of commodity value (use + exchange + symbolic), and its shifting triangulations, in Mesoamerican and Mexican indigenous culture. This role cross-cuts historical epochs but assumes more pervasive influence historically in proportion to the spread of integrative markets and monetization. Given their commodity value matrix, indigenous direct-producing subjects, yesterday and today, are assumed to economize,…
Peasant Capitalist Industry: Piecework and Enterprise in Southern Mexican Brickyards
Peasant Capitalist Industry examines the handmade brick industry that originated and is concentrated in a handful of communities near Oaxaca City including Santa Lucia del Camino and Santa Cruz Amilpas. Scott Cook provides a comprehensive analysis of the brick plants (ladrilleras) which are privately owned and operated by individuals in the manufacturing communities who also are engaged in agriculture, either directly or with hired workers. Brick…
Maximization, Economic Theory, and Anthropology: A Reply to Cancian
The Obsolete "Anti-Market" Mentality: A Critique of the Substantive Approach to Economic Anthropology
Analytic work begins with material provided by our vision of things, and this vision is ideological almost by definition. It embodies the picture of things as we see them, and wherever there is any possible motive for wishing to see them in a given rather than another light, the way in which we see things can hardly be distinguished from the nay in which we wish to see them. The more honest and naive our vision is, the more dangerous it is to the…
General: Primitive, Archaic, and Modern Economies: Essays of Karl Polanyi . G eorge D alton , ed
The "Anti-Market" Mentality Re-Examined: A Further Critique of the Substantive Approach to Economic Anthropology
The primary aim of this elaboration of an earlier critique of the substantive approach to economic anthropology is not so much "rejection" of the tenets of that approach as it is "penetration" to a deeper level of analysis. The wider implications of the formal-substantive controversy cannot be appreciated until it is viewed in its proper intellectual context, namely as directly linked to the polemic in economic thought which was initiated in the …
Price and Output Variability in a Peasant‐Artisan Stoneworking Industry in Oaxaca, Mexico: An Analytical Essay in Economic Anthropology 1
This paper presents and analyzes data collected among metateros (metate or quern makers) who live in a Zapotec village in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, and who sell their products on a weekly basis in the Oaxaca City marketplace. The analysis shows that metate output correlates closely with both “market” and “nonmarket” factors, that is, with supply, demand, and price conditions, on the one hand, and with seasonal, ecological, and cultural condit…
Inventory Post Script
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Production, ecology and economic anthropology: Notes toward an integrated frame of reference
Stone Tools for Steel-Age Mexicans? Aspects of Production in a Zapotec Stoneworking Industry1
This paper has three aims: (1) to describe in some detail selected aspects of the technology, work organization and production activity of the metateros (metate makers) of the Oaxaca Valley, Mexico, as well as to speculate about aspects of their past technology and work organization; (2) to encourage cultural anthropologists and archaeologists to be more explicit and systematic in considering material artifacts from a production perspective which…
Structural Substantivism’: A Critical Review of Marshall Sahlins’ Stone Age Economics
Stone Age Economics is the most important book in the field of economic anthropology produced by an American cultural anthropologist since M. J. Herskovits published The Economic Life of Primitive Peoples in 1940. Its theoretical and analytical superiority to that earlier book should cheer those of us who feel depressed because of the slow and tortuous course of progress in this sub-field of anthropological inquiry. While Sahlins’ book is origina…
Behavioral Analysis and the Structure of a Prehistoric Industry [and Comments and Reply]
Assuming that aboriginal behavior was recorded on chipped-stone implements and debitage, and assuming that the analyst can train himself to recognize and interpret that record, then a classification of lithic artifacts based on manufacturing behavior may be considered an inherent classification. Lithic behavioral classification is examined from the perspective of other archaeological classifications as well as from general taxonomic theory. Advan…
Markets in Oaxaca
Markets in Oaxaca
Value, price, and simple commodity production: The case of the Zapotec stoneworkers∗
The concepts of 'commodity' and of 'simple commodity production' in the work of Marx and his interpreters are examined as a necessary departure point for the analysis of value and price in a Mexican peasant-artisan stoneworking industry. The labour theory of value, which posits a close relationship between market price and average embodied labour cost of commodities in a peasant-artisan economy, is applied to the stone-working industry and is sho…
Beyond the Formen: Towards a revised Marxist theory of precapitalist formations and the transition to capitalism
The Economic Systems of Ancient Oaxaca: A Regional Perspective [and Comments and Reply]
Archaeological data from a regional settlement pattern survey of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico, are used to monitor how scarce goods and resources were allocated to members of society through eight phases from 600 B.C. to A.D. 1520. The goal is to determine how distinct historical social structures performed economically in terms of the goods and resources recoverable archaeologically. Measures utilized include land use and settlement characterist…
Rural Industry, Social Differentiation, and the Contradictions of Provincial Mexican Capitalism
Peasant economy, rural industry and capitalist development in the Oaxaca Valley, Mexico
This article examines the dynamics of rural industrial commodity production in capitalist development. Data from fieldwork in the Oaxaca Valley, Mexico, are presented and analysed around issues such as the relationship between agriculture and industry, factors influencing the incidence of rural industrial production (between households, communities and districts), the role of household demographics in rural industry, the difference between simple…
Peasant Capitalist Industry: Piecework and Enterprise in Southern Mexican Brickyards
Peasant Capitalist Industry examines the handmade brick industry that originated and is concentrated in a handful of communities near Oaxaca City including Santa Lucia del Camino and Santa Cruz Amilpas. Scott Cook provides a comprehensive analysis of the brick plants (ladrilleras) which are privately owned and operated by individuals in the manufacturing communities who also are engaged in agriculture, either directly or with hired workers. Brick…
Petty Commodity Production, Capital Accumulation, and Peasant Differentiation: Lenin vs. Chayanov in Rural Mexico
The movement of peasant-artisan household enterprises from petty commodity production to petty capitalism may be significantly affected by family demographic and life-cycle factors through their impact upon productive capacity, capital accumulation and material wealth. This finding supports Lenin's thesis that family cooperation is the foundation of capitalist cooperation, and negates Chayanov's labor-consumer balance theory of the peasant family…
Economics as Culture: Models and Metaphors of Livelihood. STEPHEN Gudeman
Inflation and Rural Livelihood in a Mexican Province: An Exploratory Analysis
Se examina el impacto material e ideológico de la crisis económica vigente sobre los campesinos-artesanos y los pequeños capitalistas del valle de Oaxaca. En especial se enfoca sobre el impacto de la inflación sobre la vida cotidiana via una muestra limitada de jefes de casa encuestados en noviembre de 1985. Se considera algunas cuestiones teóricas vinculadas al análisis y necesarias para comprender el capitalismo mexicano de provincia
Toward a New Paradigm for Anthropology in Mexican Studies
Harmony Ideology: Justice and Control in a Zapotec Mountain Village. By Laura Nader (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. $45.00). Zapotec Women. By Lynn Stephen. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. $35.00). Social Inequality in Oaxaca. A History of Resistance and Change. By Arthur D. Murphy and Alex Stepick. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 1992. $44.95). Ethnicity and Class Conflict in Rural Mexico. By Frans J. Schryer. (Prin…
Ethnicity and Economy in Rural Mexico: A Critique of the Indigenista Approach
The ethnic question has been central to the historical process of nation-state building or “nationalization” in Mexico (Adams 1967). To a significant degree, this process has been a criollo and a mestizo project (Aguirre Beltrán 1976; compare Anderson 1983, 1988). Accordingly, indígena identity has been imposed on the non-criollo and non-mestizo population by the Mexican state, with the identification process historically displaying arbitrariness…
B. Traven and the Paradox of Artisanal Production in Capitalism: Traven's Oaxaca Tale in Economic Anthropological Perspective
Por medio de una lectura crítica del cuento oaxaqueño "Canastitas en serie" de B. Traven, se pretende determinar su aporte al conocimiento de las pequeñas industrias artesanales ubicadas en la frontera México/Tejas y en estados del interior como Oaxaca. Desde la óptica de la economía antropológica en el campo de estudios mexicanos, se propone que el aporte de Traven era precoz, sofisticado, perspicaz y además que, por su riqueza de imágenes e ide…
Autonomy and Power: The Dynamics of Class and Culture in Rural Bolivia
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