Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables, figures, and maps
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The problem of the “páramo Andes”
- 2 The llajtakuna
- 3 Local and exotic components of llajta economy
- 4 Interzonal articulation
- 5 The dimensions and dynamics of chiefdom polities
- 6 The Incaic impact
- 7 Quito in comparative perspective
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
4 - Interzonal articulation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables, figures, and maps
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The problem of the “páramo Andes”
- 2 The llajtakuna
- 3 Local and exotic components of llajta economy
- 4 Interzonal articulation
- 5 The dimensions and dynamics of chiefdom polities
- 6 The Incaic impact
- 7 Quito in comparative perspective
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Summary
Several recent studies have sought to identify exchange mechanisms through which north Andean peoples dealt with the “vertical” problem. Some specialists, such as Plaza (1976:12), hypothesize something similar to a central Andean “closed” or self-sufficient system of multiple-niche control (see also Athens and Osborne 1974). Others, most notably Oberem, envision a more mixed system including both “archipelago” mechanisms on a small scale and exchange with outside groups via a variety of mechanisms, some of them still quite obscure. Still others, including Hartmann (1971) have given heavy emphasis to “market” and “commercial” elements. Having looked at the termini of the Quito region's economic network and the major “exports” flowing between them, we turn now to the institutional mechanisms which channeled them, and to the identification of those which belonged to a specifically political sphere of exchange (see Figure 13).
The “tiangueces”: centralized exchange
The evidence for a “central place” for barter of commodities among aborigines independent of Spanish influences is strong, indeed almost irrefutable, in the case of Quito. Since this evidence has been compiled and examined in detail by Roswith Hartmann (1971), no more will be attempted here than a brief review and a suggestion for integrating it with other known local institutions.
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- Native Lords of Quito in the Age of the IncasThe Political Economy of North Andean Chiefdoms, pp. 97 - 115Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1986