Barrio matters: toward an ethnology of Mesoamerican customary social units.(Special Issue: Mesoamerican Community Organization: Barrios and Other Customary Social Units)

From: Ethnology | Date: March 22, 1996| Author: Mulhare, Eileen M. | Copyright information

The customary social unit in Mesoamerican society that mediates between the household and the community is often referred to as the barrio, but a better term would be 'customary subdivision.' The most common feature of the customary subdivision is the power to draft labor for the benefit of the group or the whole community. The complexities related to this social unit make it difficult to treat within the standard categories of kinship versus territory. A framework based on classifying segmen...

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