Conflict and Solidarity in Indian Village Life

The Guadalajara Region in the Late Colonial Period

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2835149
AutoresEric Van Young (autor de correspondencia)
Año1984
Volumen64
Número1
Páginas55
Fecha de publicación1984-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2514465
OpenAlexW4247987091
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20

IN describing the social context of mid-nineteenth-century Bonapartist politics, Karl Marx likened the French smallholding peasantry to a sack of potatoes a homologous magnitude lacking internal differentiation or political consciousness. A somewhat similar view until fairly recently has characterized the attitude of many writers toward Latin American peasantries, which have been seen as being historically uniform and static social groups.' This image was conditioned by prevailing historiographical concerns rather than by availability of documentation, and was the outcome, one suspects, of institutional history done from the top down and of the inevitable social foreshortening inherent in such a perspective. More recently historians, ethnohistorians, and anthropologists have drawn a picture of Latin American peasantries as being a diverse group of family farmers, ranchers, tenants, laborers, and other relatively low-status rural dwellers occupying different social and economic niches in given historical situations.2 Specifically with regard to colonial Spanish America, this more nearly three

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