Description
Book SynopsisThis book examines the ways in which the people of an Oaxacan village practice traditional cooperative and reciprocal relationships.
Trade Review"This is a clearly argued, well-documented ethnography of social cooperation in the face of economic and social change in [a] Zapotec town." --John M. Watanabe, author of Maya Saints and Souls in a Changing World
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction: Cooperation in Context: A Framework for Analysis
- Chapter One: Four Eras, One Village: Geography and History in Santa Ana del Valle
- Chapter Two: Economy and the Structure of lroduction in Santa Ana del Valle
- Chapter Three: Patterns of Cooperation in the Santañero Household
- Chapter Four: Guelaguetza and Compadrazgo: Interhousehold Cooperation in Santa Ana
- Chapter Five: Cooperation and Community: Tequio, Cooperación, and Servicio
- Chapter Six: Cooperation, the Politics of Leadership, and Civil Society
- Conclusions: Santa Ana in the World and Cooperation in Southern Mexico
- Notes
- References Cited
- Index
