Flexible Production, Households, and Fieldwork: Multisited Zapotec Weavers in the Era of Late Capitalism

Wood, William

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“…Some of these households need not migrate since they are doing quite well (see Wood, 2000). Talk to the butchers in any Oaxacan town, and one quickly realises that they make a very good living and have little need for the remittances that might come from a sojourn.…”

Section: Household Structure Migration and Remittance Outcomesmentioning

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Local dynamics in multi‐local, transnational spaces of rural Mexico: Oaxacan experiences

Conway

Cohen

2003

International Journal of Population Geography

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Mexico's proximity to the United States, the two economies' increased integration, and the demand for low-cost labour in el norte, has fuelled a transnational circulation of people that is most probably selfperpetuating and is certainly ®rmly embedded. This investigation of local dynamics in the multi-local transnational spaces of Oaxacan households draws upon a comprehensive set of sample surveys conducted in 12 municipios in the central valleys of Oaxaca over a six-year period. We frame our Oaxaca empirical ®ndings within two constructs developed by the authors. One is a typology of circulation behaviours differentiated by scale of interactive systems of mobility and by behavioural intentions; the other is a household migration and remittance framework that highlights the wide variations in the patterns of investment of remittances by recipient households. Extending these frameworks, we use villageand family-level evidence to demonstrate the crucial signi®cance of local contexts for determining household strategies of migration and remittance investment. What is most apparent from our Oaxacan biographies is, ®rstly, the wide range of experiences that are present both within and between the various communities; secondly, the strategic use of local circuit moves in concert with national and international (or transnational) sojourns; and thirdly, the various positive and negative impacts of migration and remittance investment that range from self-aggrandisement to community investment. Our analysis concludes that local space is an essential contextual anchor, and the evolving nature of household migration decision-making is in large part determined, or at least signi®cantly in¯uenced, by the spatial nature of the social linkages between people, their households/ families, and their local, regional, national and transnational contexts.

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Section: Household Structure Migration and Remittance Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Local dynamics in multi‐local, transnational spaces of rural Mexico: Oaxacan experiences

Conway

Cohen

2003

International Journal of Population Geography

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“…Es así como una parte cada vez más significativa de la producción textil zapoteca tiene lugar fuera de las comunidades que forman el Tlacolula WPC 5 . Por otra parte, los textiles zapotecos ya no son vendidos como tales sino como textiles del suroeste estadounidense o con el label étnico de textiles nativos americanos (Warner Wood 2000y 2008.…”

Section: La Producción Textil De Teotitlán Del Valleunclassified

“…A pesar de que esta dicotomía se ha roto desde una perspectiva de sistema-mundo que busca ver cómo lo local se articula en lo global, ambos son tratados sin embargo como entidades que existen a priori. Sin embargo, tal y como señala Warner Wood (2000), el caso de Teotitlán parece mostrar precisamente las limitaciones de un marco global versus local para entender los lugares en los que viven los tejedores y migrantes zapotecos y los múltiples espacios sociales en los que sus vidas se inscriben.…”

Section: ¿Dónde Comienza Y Acaba Teotitlán Del Valle?unclassified

Constructing Teotitlán: Tapetes, Migrants, Gringos and Ethnographers

Balzola¹

2014

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“…También han formado un sistema con dos niveles de producción que incluye muchos tejidos de baja calidad producidos rápidamente y un pequeño nú-mero de artículos de mejor calidad y producción más esmerada (Jopling 1977;Morris 1991;Waterbury 1989). Como consecuencia del crecimiento del mercado de tejidos y bordados indígenas se han multiplicado los intermediarios, que controlan el diseño y la mercadotecnia de los productos, hasta el punto que su manufactura se realiza a veces en pasos separados (Cook 1993;Crummet 1998;Ehlers 1993;Stephen 1991a;Waterbury 1989;Wood 2000). Los ingresos derivados de la artesanía orientada al turismo han atraído a más mujeres hacia esta actividad y han incrementado los ingresos domésticos.…”

Section: El Tejido En El Mesoamérica Durante El Siglo XXunclassified

Threads of continuity and change. Fabricating unity in anthropology

Brumfiel¹

2007

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En este artículo comparo el proceso de tejido en telares de cintura de tres contextos culturales: los Maya, los antiguos aztecas y la Mesoamérica del siglo XX. Aunque existen evidentes continuidades, también hay importantes diferencias en sus contextos históricos. En el Maya Clásico el tejido marcó la clase social, el género entre los Azteca de México y el origen étnico en la Mesoamérica del siglo XX. El análisis comparativo de estos casos históricos sugiere que la comparación es una herramienta útil tanto para arqueó-logos como para los etnógrafos: promueve el reconocimiento de la diversidad de las prácticas y las creencias de las sociedades antiguas; contribuye a definir el alcance del estudio etnográfico contemporáneo; combate el esencialismo cultural y carga a nuestras narrativas de capacidad transformadora; nos permite reconocer el rico patrimonio de los pueblos indígenas y el hecho cultural del cambio. El análisis histórico comparativo proporciona un fundamento sólido para mantener la asociación de la arqueología y la antropología cultural como partes de un todo antropológico mayor. ABSTRACTIn this article, I compare backstrap-loom weaving in three cultural contexts: the ancient Maya, the ancient Aztecs, and 20 th century Mesoamerica. Although continuities are present, important differences exist in the ways that weaving was situated historically. Among the Classic Maya, weaving defined class; in Aztec Mexico, weaving defined gender; and in 20th-century Mesoamerica, weaving defined ethnicity. A comparison of these cases suggests that historical study is a useful tool for both archaeologists and ethnographers. It promotes recognition of the diversity of practice and belief in ancient societies. It helps to define the scope of contemporary ethnographic study. It combats cultural essentialism and injects agency into our accounts. It enables us to acknowledge both the rich heritage of indigenous peoples and the fact of culture change. Comparative historical study provides a strong rationale for the continued association of archaeology and cultural anthropology as parts of a wider anthropological whole.Palabras clave: Antropología Histórica. Analogía etnográ-fica. Mesoamérica. Tejido. Trabajo femenino.

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Flexible Production, Households, and Fieldwork: Multisited Zapotec Weavers in the Era of Late Capitalism

Cited by 54 publications

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Local dynamics in multi‐local, transnational spaces of rural Mexico: Oaxacan experiences

Local dynamics in multi‐local, transnational spaces of rural Mexico: Oaxacan experiences

Constructing Teotitlán: Tapetes, Migrants, Gringos and Ethnographers

Threads of continuity and change. Fabricating unity in anthropology

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