Land, Livelihood, and Civility in Southern Mexico - Oaxaca Valley Communities in History

Informationen zum Autor By Scott Cook Klappentext Based on thirty-five years of fieldwork, this is a masterful ethnographic historical account of the struggle to maintain landholding, livelihood, and civil-religious society in the peasant-artisan communities of Oaxaca from colonial times to the present. Zusammenfassung Based on thirty-five years of fieldwork, this is a masterful ethnographic historical account of the struggle to maintain landholding, livelihood, and civil-religious society in the peasant-artisan communities of Oaxaca from colonial times to the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Maps and TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Teitipac Communities: Peasant-Artisans on the Hacienda’s Periphery2. Hacienda San Antonio Buenavista from Two Perspectives: Hacendado and Terrazguero3. San Juan Teitipac: Metateros Here and There4. San Sebastián Teitipac: Metateros and Civility5. San Lorenzo Albarradas, Xaagá, and the Hacienda Regime6. "Castellanos" as Plaiters and Weavers: San Lorenzo Albarradas and Xaagá7. The Jalieza Communities: Peasant-Artisans with Mixed Crafts8. Santa Cecilia Jalieza: Defending Homeland in Hostile Surroundings9. Magdalena Ocotlán: From Terrazgueros to Artisanal Ejidatarios10. Magdalena’s Metateros: Servants of the Saints and the Market11. ConclusionPhoto EssayGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Scott Cook
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2014
• EAN: 9780292754768
• ISBN: 978-0-292-75476-8
• No. of pages: 403
• Series: Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture; Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long; Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture; Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries