Open AccessPEASANTS AND FLORICULTURE IN RAFAEL DELGADO, VERACRUZ. A HISTORY OF THE PRESENT
Author(s) -
Edmundo Hernández Amador
Publication year - 2020
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.47386/2020v2n1a6
Subject(s) - floriculture , narrative , boom , argument (complex analysis) , everyday life , order (exchange) , transition (genetics) , sociology , social science , economy , political science , economics , art , literature , law , engineering , biochemistry , chemistry , botany , finance , environmental engineering , biology , gene
This article focuses on floriculture in a small town called Rafael Delgado, Veracruz, Mexico. It describes the beginning, the boom, and the decline of this activity. In order to analyze the transition of peasants to flower farming, I describe the social organization of labor. Also, I emphasize the essential contribution of women to domestic labor in everyday life. In addition, I attempt to understand the adaptation of peasants into changing conditions of flower production until today. I conclude that there is a transition to the third sector. Furthermore, this perspective considers that the generation of local peasantry was a social process with contradictions and contrasts. To support this argument, I recovered oral tradition as an essential source in the history of the present. In this sense, the telling of this story is a narrative that supports the continuous development in time until today. This is the reason why direct observation is considered as a complementary skill.