World-cane. The social warp of sugarcane labour in the state of Chiapas (Mexico)
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| Formato: | artículo original |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de Publicación: | 2021 |
| Descripción: | Every year, many people who live in the colony of Tzinil go down to cut the sugarcane of producers from the town of Socoltenango in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. The social warp between the village and the colony appears in the doings and settles the meanings of producing and cutting cane, overflowing relations and productive spaces. This social warp is made up of fiestas, cockfights and relations in the market. It is made by going up and down. This article presents the findings (if I may call them that way) of an ethnographic research wich, situated between fieldwork and other studies about sugarcane work, is faced with the challenge of having to write movement. In Tzinil and Socoltenango cane working is a (total) part of the things of life. For the cutters it is done in the heat of the milpas and the fiestas in the colonia; and for the producers it involves going through the vicissitudes of have to sustain the crop through a contract. Not all cutters are "proletarians", even though they go down to cut; nor are all producers "cane entrepreneurs", even though they hire labour from above for their cane fields or obtein something like a "profit". Everything is much more fluid in social life at this contemporary, rural and modern zone of Chiapas: how to narrate the fluidity of labour without its peculiarity dissolving into the generality of the concept? |
| País: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institución: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/47459 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/antropologia/article/view/47459 |
| Palabra clave: | Sugar cane Pluriactivity Waged work Peasants Social articulation processes Caña de azúcar Pluriactividad Trabajo asalariado Campesinos Procesos de articulación social |