Abstract

FUENTES REYES, Gabriela  and  COUDANNES AGUIRRE, Mariela Alejandra. La vida de doña Concepción: memorias de una hija de hacendados del Valle de Bravo (México) en las primeras décadas del siglo XXDoña Concepción's life: Memoirs of a Landowners' Child in Valle Bravo (Mexico) in the Early Decades of XXth Century.. Historelo.rev.hist.reg.local [online]. 2012, vol.4, n.7, pp.85-111. ISSN 2145-132X.

This study is located in space and time in Donato Guerra, a municipality located in western State of Mexico, Mexico; in a transition period during the first decades of the XXth century. It is known that after the Revolution, no significant changes were produced immediately in land tenure system, in world's perceptions or in some moral economy settled since colonial times. Practices inherited from Porfirism and education formed a society in which well-differentiated values were proposed according to gender and social standing. Within this framework, the contemporary report of young Conception- today a 90-year-old woman- is analyzed. In her memory, a supposed loyalty network between landlords and servants appears, and the less kind aspects of workers' exploitation are forgiven. The evocation of names of those times -but also what is not mentioned- illustrates how social mobility was still forbidden to those whose ethnic condition is invisible in most of the report. It shows also the disqualification they were subjected to, among other aspects.

Keywords : story of life; memoirs; moral economy; porfirism; values.

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