Partible Inheritance and Land Fragmentation in a Oaxaca Village
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2498559 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Theodore E Downing (0000-0001-6352-7529, University of Arizona, corresponding author), Theodore Downing |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 235-243 |
| Publication date | 1977-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Organization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7259 • E-ISSN: 1938-3517 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.17730/humo.36.3.23r0r7gmw12687q6 |
| OpenAlex | W2108862493 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 2 |
Theodore E. Downing is the Research Specialist for the Bureau of Ethnic Research and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University o f Arizona. His research on Zapotec peasant Indians was supported, in part, by a predoctoral training fellowship from the National Institutes o f Mental Health. The author thanks Professors George Collier, Robert Netting, Harumi Befu and Robert Eder for criticisms which revivified earlier drafts o f this paper. L that AND FRAGMENTATION is accused of being an obstacle to agricultural development. It is claimed fragmentation wastes the farmer's time, energy, and resources; reduces yields; sacrifices scarce land to defining boundaries between fields; hampers the introduction of mechanized farming; and encourages rural to urban migration by making it impossible for him to stay on the farm. In a comprehensive discussion of land fragmentation and its legislative remedy, consolidation, Binns (1950) suggests that excessive fragmentation will occur in regions with: (1) long established agriculture; (2) limited land; (3) increasing population density; (4) strong microecological variations; (5) little nonagricultural employment; and (6) where land is the principle object of investment. Moreover, Binns and others (Wolf 1966:76-77; Jacoby 1953:22, Leibenstein 1963:4 1) claim that land fragmentation is a consequence of a pattern of partible inheritance which stresses the equal division of land to coheirs
Agriculture · Archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Fragmentation (computing) · Geography · Land consolidation · Legislature · Peasant · Political science · Population · Social science · Sociology · Agricultural and Food Production Studies · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Demography · Ecology · Latin American rural development · Law
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
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| Citation span | 1990 - 2024 (35) |
| Highly cited | No |