Land, Livelihood, and Civility in Southern Mexico : Oaxaca Valley Communities in History / by Scott Cook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, Scott, 1937-

Series:

Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brickmaking--Mexico--Oaxaca Valley--History.

Brickmaking.

Metate industry--Mexico--Oaxaca Valley--History.

Metate industry.

Haciendas--Mexico--Oaxaca Valley--History.

Haciendas.

Zapotec Indians--Mexico--Oaxaca Valley--Social conditions.

Zapotec Indians.

Zapotec Indians--Land tenure--Mexico--Oaxaca Valley.

Zapotec Indians--Industries--Mexico--Oaxaca Valley.

Oaxaca Valley (Mexico)--Social conditions.

Oaxaca Valley (Mexico).

Oaxaca Valley (Mexico)--Economic conditions.

Oaxaca Valley (Mexico)--Race relations.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

2014.

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the Valley of Oaxaca in Mexico’s Southern Highland region, three facets of sociocultural life have been interconnected and interactive from colonial times to the present: first, community land as a space to live and work; second, a civil-religious system managed by reciprocity and market activity wherein obligations of citizenship, office, and festive sponsorships are met by expenditures of labor-time and money; and third, livelihood. In this book, noted Oaxacan scholar Scott Cook draws on thirty-five years of fieldwork (1965–1990) in the region to present a masterful ethnographic historical account of how nine communities in the Oaxaca Valley have striven to maintain land, livelihood, and civility in the face of transformational and cumulative change across five centuries. Drawing on an extensive database that he accumulated through participant observation, household surveys, interviews, case studies, and archival work in more than twenty Oaxacan communities, Cook documents and explains how peasant-artisan villagers in the Oaxaca Valley have endeavored over centuries to secure and/or defend land, worked and negotiated to subsist and earn a living, and striven to meet expectations and obligations of local citizenship. His findings identify elements and processes that operate across communities or distinguish some from others. They also underscore the fact that landholding is crucial for the sociocultural life of the valley. Without land for agriculture and resource extraction, occupational options are restricted, livelihood is precarious and contingent, and civility is jeopardized.

Contents:

""Contents ""; ""List of Maps and Tables""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1. The Teitipac Communities: Peasant-Artisans on the Hacienda's Periphery""; ""2. Hacienda San Antonio Buenavista from Two Perspectives: Hacendado and Terrazguero""; ""3. San Juan Teitipac: Metateros Here and There""; ""4. San Sebastián Teitipac: Metateros and Civility""; ""5. San Lorenzo Albarradas, Xaagá, and the Hacienda Regime""; ""6. "Castellanos" as Plaiters and Weavers: San Lorenzo Albarradas and Xaagá""; ""7. The Jalieza Communities: Peasant-Artisans with Mixed Crafts""

""8. Santa Cecilia Jalieza: Defending Homeland in Hostile Surroundings""""9. Magdalena Ocotlán: From Terrazgueros to Artisanal Ejidatarios""; ""10. Magdalena's Metateros: Servants of the Saints and the Market""; ""11. Conclusion""; ""Photo Essay""; ""Glossary""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-292-75477-9

OCLC:

885128066