Tzintzuntzan Kinship and Compadrazgo Network of a Mexican village Robert V. Kemper, Eric Widmer, Douglas R. White. As a background to these studies, the Tzintzuntzan documentation file provides an inventory of the available types of data for computerized ethnographic census, network and longitudinal studies. Tzintzuntzan has been an exemplary case study in American ethnography.
Tzintzuntzan data offer a unique opportunity to connect demography with quantitative anthropology.
In our current network study, we test the hypothesis that kinship has had a tremendous influence on population dynamics in developing countries. Landholding in rural Mexico has been shown to be associated with migration and can be hypothesized to have an impact on nuptiality and fertility. Therefore our project aims to draw and draw upon a structural analysis of the kinship network of Tzintzuntzan area.