Periodic Markets in Precolumbian Mexico
- 1 April 1982
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 47 (2) , 346-355
- https://doi.org/10.2307/279906
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.Keywords
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