Land, Livelihood, and Civility in Southern Mexico: Oaxaca Valley Communities in HistoryIn 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 space to live and work; second, a civil religious system managed by reciprocity and market activity wherein obligations of citizenship, office, and festive sponsorships are met by expenditures of labor time and money; and third, livelihood. In this book,