Field school participants stayed at the Casa de Maria Bed and Breakfast in Colonia Reforma, Oaxaca City.
Lectures were held on the third floor terrace.
 
 

Daily activities included

• educational tours of Markets, Museums, Historic Sites, craft and faming villages, and a school;
• lectures on local markets, politics and family life;
• and a weekend visit with a household in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec

Market excursions:

The regional marketing system with a central daily market in Oaxaca City at the Centro de Abastos and Benito Juárez markets, and tianguis and covered market in Central Valley towns on different days of the week has been in practice since at least the 16th century.

The class visited the Thursday market in Zaachila (known for livestock), Friday market in Ocotlán (flowers), the Sunday market in Tlacolula (known for produce and crafts), and the Monday market in Ixtlan de Juárez.
 
 

Ixtlan (Monday)
		Zaachila (Thursday): The Livestock Market
Ocotlan (Friday) Ocotlán (with visit to Rodolfo Morales Musuem and to the pottery studios of Josefina and Guillermina Aguilar.
	Tlacolula (Sunday): Produce and Crafts

 
 

OAXACA'S HISTORIC SITES
 
 
 
 
 

Cuilapa	Photo by @Ambyr Hardy
The Tule Tree

Santo Domingo (Oaxaca City)

 

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