Open AccessSociedades agrícolas en resistencia. Los pueblos de San Miguel, Santa Cruz y San Pedro, 1878-1883
Author(s) -
Porfírio Neri Guarneros
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
historia crítica/historia crítica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.2
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1900-6152
pISSN - 0121-1617
DOI - 10.7440/histcrit51.2013.02
Subject(s) - indigenous , context (archaeology) , state (computer science) , face (sociological concept) , resistance (ecology) , ethnology , humanities , political science , geography , agriculture , economy , archaeology , history , sociology , art , economics , social science , ecology , algorithm , computer science , biology
Agricultural societies in the state of Mexico involved a form of legal resistance used by indigenous communities in the face of liberal individualization policies of communal property, particularly the federal seizure law of June 25, 1956. In this context, some residents of the towns of Santa Cruz and San Miguel created an agricultural association, as did residents from the town of San Pedro, to retain the collective use of their communal goods and acquire some legal capacity. This condition thus allowed indigenous peoples to present writs of amparo to defend "private" rights