A Hybrid Exchange System: The La Purísima Market/Tianguis, Tehuacán-Puebla, Mexico
No. 18 (2014-01-01)Author(s)
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Ernesto Licona Valencia
Abstract
The article treats the market (or tianguis) as an economic institution in which several different forms of goods exchange intermingle, forming a hybrid system of predominantly monetary exchange. These transactions are described ethnographically to reveal that economic reality is mediated by the sociocultural features of subjects whose function is primarily economic.
Keywords:
exchange system, barter, market, tianguis, economy