Lives of Dust and Water An Anthropology of Change and Resistance in Northwestern Mexico

Name: Lives of Dust and Water An Anthropology of Change and Resistance in Northwestern Mexico
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ISBN: 9780816527472

ISBN-10: 0816527474

ISBN-13: 9780816527472

Edition: 2nd 2008

Authors: Marï¿½a Luz Cruz-Torres, Marï¿½a Luz Cruz-Torres

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Along the coast of northwestern Mexico the new global economy has imposed terrible burdens on many sectors of the population and once self-reliant, rural populations have been driven to wage and subsistence labor in order to survive. This book eloquently explains how contemporary rural communities in southern Sinaloa have responded to economic and ecological changes affecting the entire nation. Mara Luz Cruz-Torres evokes the rich and varied experiences of the people who live in the villages of Celaya and El Cerro, showing how they invent and utilize their own social capital to emerge as whole persons in the face of limited resources, poverty, illness, sudden death, and daily oppression. A…

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List price: $24.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Publication date: 6/19/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 325
Size: 6.15" wide x 9.30" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction: A Journey of Many Paths



The Regional Context: History, Development, and Human Processes


Introduction to Part I



El Sur de Sinaloa: A Historical Portrait of a Land and a People



Rosario and Escuinapa: The Globalization of Two Coastal Municipios



Localities: Their Emergence and Transition within National and Global Processes


Introduction to Part II



Gypsies, Peones, and Ejidatarios: A Political Ecology of El Cerro



On Top of a Hill: The Structure and Organization of a Mexican Ejido



From Hacienda to Community: A Political Ecology of Celaya



In the Shade of the Coconut Trees: The Structure and Organization of Celaya



Households, Gender, and Resistance: Culminating Struggles at the Intersection of Economy, Production, and Natural Resources


Introduction to Part III



Global Economies, Local Livelihoods: Gender and Labor in Rural Communities



La Lucha: The Dynamics of Household Relations and Resistance


Conclusion: The Political Ecology of Change and Resistance in Northwestern Mexico


Afterword: Al Paso del Tiempo



Research Methodology


Notes


Glossary of Spanish and Scientific Terms


References Cited


Index