book chapter
Landlord and peasant in colonial Oaxaca
Stanford University Press • Stanford, Calif. • Published In 1972 • Pages:
By: Taylor, William B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document contains a study of land tenure patterns in the Valley of Oaxaca during the colonial period (ca. 1521-1810). Those portions of the book that pertain to Indians, both nobles and commoners, have been processed for the file while those chapters pertaining to Spanish landlords and missionaries have not been processed. The data for this study are drawn from land records, wills, judicial court records, and other colonial documents. The main topics covered in this study are land tenure and property rights, land disputes, and the land owning patterns of caciques and commoners. It is Taylor's conclusion that Oaxaca Indians retained much of their land holdings throughout the colonial period and were not engulfed by expanding Spanish haciendas as were the Indians in the northern parts of Mexico. Chapters contained in the document that have been processed for the Files are: Introduction; 1. The Setting; 2. Colonial Cacicazgos; 3. Pueblo and Peasant Lands; and, Conclusions.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Local officials
- Acculturation and culture contact
- External relations
- Property
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Zapotec
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Mexico
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Eleanor C. Swanson ; 1980
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1521-1810
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Valley of Oaxaca, Oaxaca State, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- William B. Taylor
- Bibliographic footnotes appear at the end of the text and have been indexed for OCM 113.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-278)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 70153819
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Zapotec Indians/Land tenure--Mexico--Oaxaca Valley/Land use--Mexico--Oaxaca Valley/Oaxaca Valley (Mexico)--Social conditions