Cultural Capital: Mountain Zapotec Migrant Associations in Mexico City

Cultural Capital: Mountain Zapotec Migrant Associations in Mexico City
ISBN-10
0816547718
ISBN-13
9780816547715
Category
History
Pages
174
Language
English
Published
2022-04-05
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Author
Lane Ryo Hirabayashi

Description

This book shows how Zapotec peasants migrating to Mexico City utilize paisanazgo--which prescribes solidarity among people from the same locale--as the basis for cooperation and mutual aid within a new environment. This study focuses on three groups of Mountain Zapotecs to explain why migrant associations were created and why they took different forms, citing regional variations in ethnicity, solidarity, occupational pursuits, and sociopolitical articulation to the nation in the three points of origin.

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