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Indígenas de la nación: Etnografía histórica de la alteridad en México (Milpa Alta, siglos XVII–XXI)
Hispanic American Historical Review (2020) 100 (1): 132–134.
Published: 01 February 2020
..., with the adoption of Catholicism by native peoples and the concession of land grants ( mercedes ) by the crown as its most important pillars, established a regime of alterity in which native identities—those of Milpa Alta included—ceased to be directly tied to the basic preconquest political unit, the altepetl...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1980) 60 (4): 694–696.
Published: 01 November 1980
... rurales del Colegio Espíritu Santo en Puebla . By Ewald Ursula . Translated by Cerna Luis R. . Wiesbaden , 1976 . Franz Steiner Verlag GMBH . Maps. Illustrations. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xix , 190 . Cloth. Milpa y hacienda: Tenencia de la tierra...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (2): 187–216.
Published: 01 May 1978
... or one such family plus several adults, often brothers, or fathers and sons, or other patrilineally related males who cultivated communal or adjacent milpas. It is certainly possible for a man to clear, plant, and tend a milpa by himself but much easier and safer and more congenial to work in a small...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (1): 126–127.
Published: 01 February 1995
... is most illuminating. Rural Campeche was historically an area of milpas —subsistence production by Maya peasants—interrupted only by the henequen boom of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the 1970s, however, the state saw “development” and “productivity” as solutions to deepening...
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Hispanic American Historical Review 11676606.
Published: 30 December 2024
... reportedly encountered the Virgin Mary, in human form and esh, seated in a tree on her family s milpa (corn eld) in the outskirts of the small town of Santa Marta, in what is today the Mexican state of Chiapas.1 Much like in the I presented segments of this article at the 2024 meeting of the Conference...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (2): 368–369.
Published: 01 May 2000
... community in Yucatán, are needed. Faust’s primary concern is environmental degradation and its relationship with the deterioration of Mayan milpa traditions and culture. She argues for a model that would redirect modernization to rescue traditional agricultural systems and simultaneously prevent Mexican...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (3): 571–572.
Published: 01 August 1996
.... Through legal and extralegal means, their vacant lands, actually milpas lying fallow, fell into the hands of the liberal state and eventually to political favorites and soldiers. Even as some Maya turned themselves into yeoman farmers at the behest of short-sighted liberal policies, they often became...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (4): 697–698.
Published: 01 November 1993
..., indeed, the people fled the congregaciones and returned to live next to their old milpas, a case of deculturation. The contemporary Nahuatl record, with a few rare exceptions, such as a unique house-by-house census taken in the Cuernavaca region ca. 1540, does not begin until the mid-sixteenth...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2004) 84 (1): 163–165.
Published: 01 February 2004
... from outsiders they saw as trying to ‘revolutionize’ them against their will” (p. 5). Through a series of brief biographical sketches, Brown first explores the origins and growth in 1980 of the first rural guerrillas, MILPAS (“cornfields”) in north-central Nicaragua, under the leadership of local...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (4): 818–819.
Published: 01 November 1969
... of the requisite methods courses and who sports his doctoral degree. He makes a very surprising but logical ease for Mexico’s milpa (slash and burn) corn cultivation. We may need to amend our lecture notes about this supposedly wasteful agricultural practice. Best of all, Record tells a whopping good story. His...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1993) 73 (3): 498–499.
Published: 01 August 1993
... a milpa and harvesting chicle. The fourth section is a conversation between two Itzá men, one aged 58 and the other 74. The texts provide much information about Itzá peasant life and beliefe. The conversational text is particularly valuable: natural conversations are difficult to obtain in the presence...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (2): 307–308.
Published: 01 May 1978
... University Press 1978 A keen intelligence confronts in this work an enormously convoluted problem. The result is a romp through the milpa of Tezcatlipoca, and a brilliant and exasperating exploration of Mexican mythology. The method is declared to be “structuralist.” In practice this means...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1998) 78 (1): 143–144.
Published: 01 February 1998
..., the Caste War began. Rugeley’s economic and peasant perspective contrasts to that of scholars who take indigenous and even essentialist perspectives on Yucatán and the Caste War. The Speaking Cross, an apocalyptic world view, preconquest social structures, and the imagery of milpa and machete that loom...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (4): 651–652.
Published: 01 November 1965
... on upland milpas which must be rotated every two or three years because of soil exhaustion and erosion, finds himself a relatively poorer member of the community. During the present century the population of Villa las Rosas has experienced a threefold expansion, and Tzeltal speaking monoglots have...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2003) 83 (2): 405–406.
Published: 01 May 2003
...-time activities. Families planted milpas on the edge of industrial South Chicago, vital to depression and war-era households (and immortalized in fiction by Hugo Martinez-Serros). Couples danced to the Royal Castillians in the 1920s and Don Roberto and the Rum-baleros in the 1950s. After Sunday morning...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (3): 533–534.
Published: 01 August 2021
.... They remained on their milpas, caring for their own families and providing for Sandino's forces. At times Sandino “invited” the women to accompany him as cooks and tortilla makers—it was unthinkable that men would make their own tortillas (p. 103). And although the invitation was not really a choice, Sandino...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (3): 531–532.
Published: 01 August 2018
.... Likewise, the Yucatec Maya rebels' demands for fair taxation and access to the milpa during the Guerra de Castas challenged criollo elite assertions that the conflict was a race war. Their demands for collective land rights instead suggest a critique of criollo capitalism. Such quotidian interruptions were...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (3): 558–560.
Published: 01 August 1973
... in Zinacantan is the milpa system, and the bulk of Cancian’s book details precisely the farming techniques, organization of labor, labor input, relations with land owners, crop yields, locations of fields, transportation problems, marketing, etc., all of which factors figure prominently in the milpero’s world...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2023) 103 (2): 388–390.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and city on the other” (p. 4). They may still have been rural at the civil war's end but today are a riot of electrical wires, tuk-tuks, and young people on the make. The milpa is never far, but neither are the Tz'utujil Maya–speaking rappers. In his new book, J. T. Way takes an unusual and fruitful...
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Hispanic American Historical Review (2021) 101 (2): 369–371.
Published: 01 May 2021
... it meant to stop “working as one” on the milpa. The rebellion would last until 1984, when the Antorcha Campesina (Torch of the Farmer), a political group comprised of mestizos connected to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), displaced local mestizo elites and their political dominance. Nonetheless...
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