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Re: INFO REQUEST: Precontact Trade in NA
karl h schwerin (schwerin@UNM.EDU)
Mon, 8 Jan 1996 15:08:16 -0700
On Sun, 7 Jan 1996, RICHARD ROBBINS wrote:
> Date sent: 7-JAN-1996 21:51:30
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> Could anyone recommend a good source on trade networks and markets in the
> Americas around 1400? I would like to explain to students the types of
> commodities and the trade and distribution mechanisms that existed prior to
> European contact. (I'll be comparing these with other parts of the world.)
> I forget whether or not these were discussed in Polanyi's Trade and Markets
> in the Early Empires.
> Thanks!
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> Richard H. Robbins Bitnet: Robbinrh@snyplava.bitnet
> Department of Anthropology Internet: Robbinrh@splava.cc.plattsburgh.edu
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> (518) 564-4006
Richard -
The one relevant article in Polanyi is:
Anne C. Chapman. "Port of Trade Enclves in Aztec and Maya
Civilizations," pp. 114-153
1959. Puertos de intercambios en Mesoamerica prehispanica. Serie
Historia, 3. Mexico: INAH
Others who have written on the subject include:
Acosta Saignes, Miguel. 1945. "Los Pochteca. Ubicacion de los
Mercaderes en la Estructura Social Tenochca." Acta Anthropologica
1(1):9-41, 51-54
Alvarez Santiago, Hector. 1991. El Sochitlali en San Andres Mixtla.
Ritual e intercambio ecologico entre los nahuas de Zongolica. Coleccion
Centenario, 7. Xalapa, VER: Gobierno del Estado de Veracruz
Barbosa Cano, Manlio. 1975. Los sistemas de intercambio ritual y
comercial en la region poblano-tlaxcalteca. Mexico: INAH
Brumfiel, Elizabeth M. 1980. Specialization, Market Exchange, and the
Aztec State: A View from Huexotla. Current Anthrop. 21(4):459-478
Calnek, Edward E. 1976. The Organization of Urban Food Supply Systems:
The Case of Tenochtitlan. Atti, 40th International Congress of
Americanists 4:97-98 Roma-Genova: Tilgher
Drennan, Robert D. 1984. Long-Distance Transport Costs in Pre-Hispanic
Mesoamerica. American Anthrop. 86(1):105-112
Hassig, Ross. 1985. Trade, tribute, and transportation. The
sixteenth-century political economy of the Valley of Mexico. Norman, OK:
Univ. of Oklahoma Press
Hicks, Frederic. 1987. First Steps Toward a Market-Integrated Economy
in Aztec Mexico. in Early State Dynamics, ed. by Henri J.M. Claessen &
Pieter van de Velde. Leiden: E.J. Brill
Hirth, Kenneth G. 1983. Trade and exchange in early Mesoamerica.
Albuquerque, NM: Univ. of New Mexico Press
Hodge, Mary G. & Michael E. Smith (eds.). 1993. Economies and polities
in the Aztec realm. Austin, TX: Univ. of Texas Press
Katz, F. 1956. Die Sozialoekonomische Verhaeltnisse bei den Azteken im
15. und 16. Jahrhundert. Berlin:
Katz, Friedrich. 1966. Situacion social y economica de los aztecas
durante los siglos XV y XVI. Mexico: Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Leon Portilla, Miguel. 1962. "La institucion cultural del comercio
prehispanico." Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl 3:23-54
Osorio Altuzar, Federico. 1969. Historia y pensamiento economico de
Mexico. Instituto de Investigaciones Economicas. Mexico: Univ. Nacional
Autonoma de Mexico
Roger, Odile. 1993. Organizacion economica y social de los Aztecas y
culturas que les precedieron. Mexico, DF: Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana
Rojas, Jose L. de. 1986. Mexico-Tenochtitlan. Economia y sociedad en
el siglo XVI. Mexico:
Sahagun, Bernardino de. 1961. Vida economica de Tenochtitlan. 1.
Pochtecayotl (Arte de traficar). paleografia, version, introduccion y
apendices preparados por Angel Ma. Garibay K. Fuentes Indigenas de la
Cultural nahuatl. Informantes de Sahagun, 3. Mexico: Univ . Nacional
Autonoma de Mexico
Savoy, Gene. 1974. On the trail of the feathered serpent.
Indianapolis, IN: (an archeologist finds and sails the ancient sea route
that linked Incan and Aztec civilziations)_
Simons, B. Bittmann & T.D. Sullivan. 1976. The Pochteca. Atti, 40th
International Congress of Americanists, 4:203-212 Roma-Genova: Tilgher
Spence, Michael W. 1981. On Aztec Specialization and Exchange. Current
Anthropology 22(2):183-184
Voorhies, Barbara (ed.). 1989. Ancient trade and tribute. Economics of
the Soconusco region of Mesoamerica. Salt Lake City, UT: Univ. of Utah Press
Karl Schwerin SnailMail: Dept. of Anthropology
Univ. of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131
e-mail: schwerin@unm.edu
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