Abstract

CANEZ DE LA FUENTE, Gloria María  and  MELENDEZ TORRES, Juana María. Modernization, Socio-Productive Reconfiguration in a Group of Cattle Raisers Peasant in the Northwest of Mexico, 1964-2000. Historelo.rev.hist.reg.local [online]. 2013, vol.5, n.10, pp.197-235. ISSN 2145-132X.

This article approaches the study of case of a group of cattle raisers in the northern of Mexico. They are analyzed from a socio-anthropological and historical perspective, which were the aspects that affected so much the development of actions and social relations directed the improvement of his conditions of life as of his productive activity under the modernization process in a semidesert region, during the second half of the 20th century. Qualitative interviews were realized, with the purpose of recovering his experiences and the explanation or meaning of his actions in his own terms. We find that the new productive and financial scheme, the exclusion of the traditional ranching, and the changes in the use and control of the resources water and land, they propitiated internal conflicts between these peasants concerning the control and use of it, as well as the reconfiguration of the existing social relations and identities complex.

Keywords : peasantry; cattle ranching; intergroup relation; identity; study of case; northern of Mexico.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )