In the Valley of Oaxaca in Mexico’s Southern Highland region, three facets of sociocultural life have been interconnected and interactive from colonial times to the present: first, community land as a
In the Valley of Oaxaca in Mexico’s Southern Highland region, three facets of sociocultural life have been interconnected and interactive from colonial times to the present: first, community land as a
Brickmaking was one of the pioneering non-agricultural manufacturing industries in the lower Rio Grande/Rio Bravo corridor, and a precursor of the binational, cross-border maquiladora industry that ca
"This is a deep and rich ethnography. Like the other works of Scott Cook, Handmade Brick for Texas illustrates research of the highest caliber. Here he focuses on the century and a quarter of the long
We now know, says Cook (emeritus Latin American and Caribbean studies, U. of Connecticut), that the anthropological study of the economic life of Mexican and Mexico will have to be more attentive to t
Although brickmaking was one of the pioneering non-agricultural manufacturing industries in the Rio Grande Valley, as well as in other areas of the lower Rio Grande region, this is the first ethnograp
