Residence Rules and Ultimogeniture in Tlaxcala and Mesoamerica

Robichaux, David

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“…Source: Sousa et al (2010). although the numbers are too small for significant associations. For example, daughters-in-law were more likely to be identified as main carers in the rural Mexican catchment than elsewhere, which may reflect particularly strong local traditions of virilocality (Robichaux, 1997). There are also variations for carers who were unrelated to the older person: in all cases these people were paid to provide care.…”

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Allocating Family Responsibilities for Dependent Older People in Mexico and Peru

Lloyd‐Sherlock

Mayston

Acosta

et al. 2017

The Journal of Development Studies

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This paper applies different analytical frameworks to explore processes of family bargaining about providing care for dependent older people in Mexico and Peru. These frameworks include cultural norms, life course effects and material exchange. The paper is based on 19 in-depth qualitative family case studies, which are linked to a wider set of quantitative survey data. Care arrangements and bargaining processes are revealed to be highly gendered, and largely conform to prevailing cultural norms. Rather than neutral and objective, the selfidentified role as main carer is found to be subjective and potentially ambiguous. The few men who self-identify as main carers are more likely to play an indirect, organisational role than engage directly in daily care. As such, bargaining mainly relates to which woman performs the main care role, and large family networks mean that there is usually more than one candidate carer. Bargaining can occur inter-generationally and conjugally, but bargaining between siblings is of particular importance. Bargaining is framed by the uncertain trajectory of older people's care needs, and arrangements are sometimes reconfigured in response to changing care needs or family circumstances. Taking the narratives at face value, the influence of life course effects on bargaining and care arrangements is more obvious than material exchange. There are, however, indications that economic considerations, particularly inheritance, still play an important behind the scenes role.

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Section: Design and Methodsmentioning

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Allocating Family Responsibilities for Dependent Older People in Mexico and Peru

Lloyd‐Sherlock

Mayston

Acosta

et al. 2017

The Journal of Development Studies

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“…McCaa 2003). These tendencies have endured in the household organization of contemporary Nahua communities in central Mexico, but the importance of bilateral kin ties and joint families has declined in favor of Spanish-style patrilineal, nuclear ones (Nutini 1968(Nutini , 1996Robichaux 1997). Robichaux (1997, p.161) proposes that the contemporary Nahua preference for male ultimogeniture in house ownership likely has prehispanic roots, which he suggests may have been a policy imposed by Teotihuacan or a later central Mexican state.…”

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Advances in the Household Archaeology of Highland Mesoamerica

Carballo

2010

J Archaeol Res

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Recent investigations and reconsideration of households in the Mesoamerican highlands illustrate the central role of domestic spheres of interaction to the broader cultural dynamics of the region over four millennia. Methodological advances in the analysis of past houses permit more sophisticated social reconstructions of the spaces and activities that constituted domestic life for the diverse peoples of the region. Current studies highlight the economic interdependence and diversification of households, their strategic flexibility in affiliation, the integrative ritual practices undertaken within domestic spaces, the material correlates of prestige competition between households, and the manner in which households articulated with a larger social universe.

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“…It seems that inheritance preferences in Guadalajara echo the complexity noted for rural Mexico (Cuaquentzi Pineda 2007; González Montes 1988; Mulhare 2004; Nuitjen 2003; Robichaux 1988; Robles Berlanga et al 2000). Authors writing about rural or indigenous populations nonetheless observe a persistent preference for leaving the house to the youngest son, to the extent that Robichaux (1997:158–60) now describes this practice, along with recently married couples going to live with the man's parents, as defining features of a “Mesoamerican family system.” Initial patrivirilocality is followed by establishment of separate households for married sons, but the youngest son remains in the parental home, looking after his parents in their old age in exchange for inheriting the house after their death (Robichaux 2002:75; see also Mulhare 2004; Nuitjen 2003; Ruiz Meza 2006). 4…”

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Modest Expectations: Gender and Property Rights in Urban Mexico

Varley

2010

Law Soc Rev

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This article examines gender and property in Guadalajara, Mexico, in the light of debates that oppose formal title to the social embeddedness of rights in customary law and assert that titling is bad for women. The article focuses on urban homes, private property, and civil law but finds that qualities regarded as characterizing customary property relations also shape popular understandings of property in urban Mexico. Discussion groups and social surveys in four low-income neighborhoods addressed two aspects of family law and property: whose name should appear on titles, and who should inherit the home. The results show that women, as wives, sisters, and daughters, have a secondary relationship to property. They also suggest that the opposition of individual title to socially embedded rights is a false dichotomy and that generalizing arguments about formalization and especially the negative gender implications of titling risks replicating the universalizing tendencies of Western property models.

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Residence Rules and Ultimogeniture in Tlaxcala and Mesoamerica

Cited by 35 publications

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Allocating Family Responsibilities for Dependent Older People in Mexico and Peru

Allocating Family Responsibilities for Dependent Older People in Mexico and Peru

Advances in the Household Archaeology of Highland Mesoamerica

Modest Expectations: Gender and Property Rights in Urban Mexico

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