Aztec Jewelry - 68000 Oaxaca de Juárez

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I am in harmony with the owner of Aztec Jewelry. The activity outside his store is not of his making and, for the moment, there's little he can do about it. I do not know anything about the politics of street vending in Oaxaca, but I have seen that there is sense of entitlement to sell wherever one wants, for good or bad, for equity or not, among certain populations here. The Zócalo of the city is occupied by a plantón that apparently makes an equity argument. On the level of individuals, there is a shared idea among the Mexicans I've known that one is constitutionally free to be in any space he's choosing to occupy. The ideas involved by the minds of the Oaxacans is a muddle for me and so I want to learn more. My point in emphasizing these vendors who set up and remove shops day by day is that in Mexico a tremendous amount of life is spent in moving and positioning stuff. It's a gripping phenomenon, but here on Maps, the only way to show this is to associate these shops -- they are almost touching the permanent structures they're pitched in front of -- with the tenants of these structures, for as things stand, there is no definite social separation between them in some ways of seeing. The owner of Aztec Jewelry -- la Joyería Azteca -- is as much a part of the phenomenon I'm picturing and in any suitable ethnography, his part wouldn't be omitted. I don't see these street vendors as contributing to a bad impression of Oaxaca. These people and their lives are a tourist draw. They add some of the exotic that makes tourists in Oaxaca feel they're not at home but in a new and remarkable world that gives them something to talk about once they're back home. But this is unimportant speculation on my part. Here below is my review, which is intended to be enthusiastically positive. ... The Joyería Azteca is the backdrop of some other business that shares its front yard and by which you must pass to see or even buy the jewels of the Aztecs. Much of downtown Oaxaca is the temporary property -- it's theirs by day -- of sellers who have the right to plant their businesses in the street in front of the brick and mortar stores, the buildings that have existed in the ce6 of the city since the inception. This comes near to doubling the downtown commercial space and gives something to do to a good part of the city's people. Along many streets -- I don't know the rules governing this -- these shops on the street must be assembled a new every morning and then taken down sometime after sunset. The shops are stored in bags, hauled on carts or in trucks and stored during darkness.