Land, Livelihood, and Civility in Southern Mexico : Oaxaca Valley Communities...
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Land, Livelihood, and Civility in Southern Mexico : Oaxaca Valley Communities.... He found that most rural communities in the Oaxaca Valley mixed animal husbandry, agriculture, crafts, and nonagricultural occupations. Differences arose in size, location, topography, specialization and division of labor, how much they adhered to tradition, and their interest in outsiders and their influences. Land, Livelihood, and Civility in Southern Mexico : Oaxaca Valley Communities in History, Hardcover by Cook, Scott, ISBN 0292754760, ISBN-13 9780292754768, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Citing an emphasis placed on citizenship and civility in the nine communities examined in his book from 1965 to the 1990s, Cook delineates how it related to a “new evolutionary trajectory” for the state of Oaxaca that was based on cultural and national diversity rather than homogeneity. He endeavors to explain how the peoples’ social lives were interconnected from colonial times to the 1990s, with three themes of community land as living and working space, a civil-religious system of community service, and sponsoring of fiestas. He found that most rural communities in the Oaxaca Valley mixed animal husbandry, agriculture, crafts, and nonagricultural occupations. Differences arose in size, location, topography, specialization and division of labor, how much they adhered to tradition, and their interest in outsiders and their influences. He aims to answer the question of how the Oaxacans portrayed in th “are like all other people, like some other people, and like no other people.” Eleven chapters cover peasant-artisans; hacendado (owner) and terrazguero (tenant); metateros (the makers of mutates or stoneworkers); plaiters and weavers; mixed crafts; defending the homeland; from terrazgueros to artisanal ejidatarios; saints and markets. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()
