Land, Livelihood, and Civility in Southern Mexico: Oaxaca Valley Communities in History

Acknowledgments

acknowLedgmenTs I gratefully re-acknowledge the cooperation, hospitality, and assistance of all those communities, persons, agencies, offices, and organizations in the United States, Mexico, and Oaxaca too numerous to relist here but acknowledged in my previous research publications. To the authorities and people of San Lorenzo Albarradas, Xaagá, San Juan Teitipac, San Sebastián Teitipac, and San Antonio Buenavista, in the district of Tlacolula; and of Santa Cecilia Jalieza, Santo Domingo Jalieza, Santo Tomás Jalieza, and Magdalena, in the district of Ocotlán, I express my deepest appreciation for their cooperation and tolerance, and hope that my work will prove helpful to their future generations in understanding the lives and struggles of their forerunners. All of my postdoctoral fieldwork prior to 1990 was made possible mostly through grants from the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Fulbright Academic Specialist Program in Mexico, and the University of Connecticut Research Foundation. The expert and courteous staff of the Benson Latin American Collection at the Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin were a crucial resource in locating published materials unavailable to me from other sources. Also, I express my appreciation to the reference librarians at the Alkek Library of Texas State University in San Marcos for allowing me to access periodicals through jStOR; and to Adam Mathews, skilled cartographer of the Department of Geography at that same university, for his work in redoing and improving the maps included in this book. Arturo Solís V. provided friendship and camaraderie during several decades of my work in Oaxaca; his lubrication service kept my vehicle in top condition during long stays, and during shorter stays he generously provided me with lodging and transportation. Thanks to his unique social network and deep appreciation of Oaxacan and Mexican life, I met people and visited places that I would not have without his good offices and hospitality. Special mention for their indispensable assistance during the writing of this book must be made of Manuel Esparza of INAh-Oaxaca and Jorge Hernández-Díaz of IIS-uABjO. Also, John Chance, Colin Clarke, and Brian Hamnett demonstrated unusual patience and attention as discerning readers of earlier versions of the manuscript. Mike Chibnik and Joe Whitecotton provided helpful commentaries as readers for the University of Texas Press. I am enormously grateful for the advice and input of all of the above readers , and I hope the final version is not displeasing to any of them and meets their own high standards of scholarship. Also, I want to express my appre- ciation to Theresa May, Editor-in-Chief of the University of Texas Press, for her interest in this project, and to her and her editorial staff for getting the book to press. Finally, my wife Hilda and the rest of my family have provided love, support , and understanding during the trials and tribulations of this project and all the others that preceded it, for which I am truly grateful. xviii acknowLedgmenTs Land, Livelihood, and Civility in Southern Mexico THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...