Land, Livelihood, and Civility in Southern Mexico - 9780292754768

Land, Livelihood, and Civility in Southern MexicoOaxaca Valley Communities in History\nAuthor(s): Scott Cook\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9780292754768, 978-0292754768\nSynopsis\nIn the Valley of Oaxaca in Mexicos 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 [tel] 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 transformati.