Class, Ethnicity, and Community in Southern Mexico

Oaxaca's Peasantries
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-823387-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 333 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

The state of Oaxaca has been studied intensively by archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists, but this is the first comprehensive overview of rural communities in the twentieth century. The study is rooted in the colonial and post-independence periods; but the text concentrates primarily on the post-revolutionary period, and on the land reform which allowed peasantries to be reconstituted in the lowland areas of the state, as a complement to the traditional peasantries which still existed on communal lands at high altitudes. Peasant lifestyles and production systems are examined, in particular to distinguish between those activities which are subsistence orientated, and those which are geared to the market.

In the last thirty years rural life has been transformed by improved communications, and by services provided by the federal state, but above all by migration to Oaxaca City, other Mexican cities, and the USA. The outcome has been the emergence of class differences at the level of the community; the development of ethnic identities, based on language and regional differences; and the emergence of opposition to the hegemony of the party of government, the PRI. The wide range of issues under discussion will make this volume of interest to geographers, historians, anthropologists, and those involved in development studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clarke, Colin

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regionalgeographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I. Historical Foundations of Peasantries

- 1: Peasantries in Colonial and Post-Independence Oaxaca (1520-1920)

- 2: Peasantries in Post-Revolutionary Oaxaca: the State and Development (1920-1970)

- Part II. Peasants, Commercialization, and Urbanization

- 3: Peasant Production and the Environment

- 4: Peasant Markets, Commercialization, and Urban Capitalism

- 5: Migration, Urbanization, and Proletarianization

- Part III. Ethnicity, Community, and Politics

- 6: Ethnic-Linguistic Groups: the Quest for Identity

- 7: Community, Class, and the Rural Municipio

- 8: PRI 'Hegemony' and Political Dissent

- Part IV. Conclusion

- 9: Conclusion: Oaxaca's Peasantries in their Theoretical and National Contexts