Overview

In the villages and small towns of much of rural Latin America, cooperation among neighbours is essential for personal and community survival. It takes many forms from godparenting to sponsoring fiestas, holding civic offices or exchanging agricultural labour in Oaxaca, Mexico. This book examines ways in which the people of Santa Ana del Valle practice these traditional cooperative and recipricol relationships and also invent new relationships to respond to global forces of social and economic change at work within their community. The author seeks to offer rich ethnographic material to give a working definition of community created in and through cooperative relationships.

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This is a clearly argued, well-documented ethnography of social cooperation in the face of economic and social change in [a] Zapotec town. --John M. Watanabe, author of Maya Saints and Souls in a Changing World

"""This is a clearly argued, well-documented ethnography of social cooperation in the face of economic and social change in [a] Zapotec town."" --John M. Watanabe, author of Maya Saints and Souls in a Changing World"

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Jeffrey H. Cohen is a professor of anthropology at the Ohio State University. He is the author of several books, including Cultures of Migration: The Global Nature of Contemporary Mobility and The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico.

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