Table 6 Functional analyses
From: Palm Sunday in central Mexico: among sellers, palms and syncretism
Stage of the chain | Function | Agent | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
Palm leaves acquisition | Gather | Local gatherer | Palm leaves marketed to local weavers or local intermediaries |
Gather | Non-local gatherer | Palm leaves marketed to local intermediaries or wholesalers | |
Primary Marketing | Transportation and facilitating the gathering of leaves | Local intermediary | Transportation of leaves to a known sales site in local squares and markets Sale, usually in units of 100 leaves |
Transportation and facilitating the gathering of leaves | Wholesaler intermediary | Transportation of leaves to extensive non-local markets Sale, usually in units of 100 leaves | |
Craft transformation | Weave palm leaves Sale | Weaver–seller (Strategy 4; W, S) | Fabricating the ramos Sale of ramos outside churches |
Marketing | Sale | Intermediary seller (Strategy 4; P, S) | Purchase the already woven palm leaves (ramos) Sale of ramos outside churches |
Retail sale | Final sale | Seller | Sale of ramos to the final consumer |