Lives of dust and water
Subtitle: an anthropology of change and resistance in northwestern Mexico
By: María Luz Cruz-Torres.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: Rural poor -- Mexico -- Sinaloa (State) -- Social conditions.; Rural poor -- Mexico -- Sinaloa (State) -- Economic conditions.; Rural development -- Mexico -- Sinaloa (State); Social change -- Mexico -- Sinaloa (State); Sinaloa (Mexico : State) -- Social conditions.; Sinaloa (Mexico : State) -- Economic conditions.; Sinaloa (Mexico : State) -- Rural conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-317) and index.
Table of contents: title: El Sur de Sinaloa : a historical portrait of a land and a people; title: Rosario and Escuinapa : the globalization of two coastal municipios; title: Gypsies, peones, and ejidatarios : a political ecology of El Cerro; title: On top of a hill : the structure and organization of a Mexican ejido; title: From hacienda to community : a political ecology of Celaya; title: In the shade of the coconut trees : the structure and organization of Celaya; title: Global economies, local livelihoods : gender and labor in rural communities; title: La Lucha : the dynamics of household relations and resistance; title: Conclusion : the political ecology of change and resistance in northwestern Mexico.