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Periodic Markets in Precolumbian Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Ross Hassig
Ross Hassig*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Vanderbiit University, Nashviiie, TN 37235
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Abstract

Considerations of markets in Precolumbian Mexico have failed to analyze the significance of periodicity for Precolumbian market systems. This essay examines periodicity and argues that the several types of recorded Precolumbian markets are qualitatively different; the 5-day market was basic, while 9-, 13-, and 20-day markets were ritual in nature, tied to specific and infrequent days, and played little or no part in market articulation.

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Reports
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , April 1982 , pp. 346 - 355
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1982

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