Abstract
Almost five months were spent in Oaxaca in 1978, exploring the cross-cutting nature of community, ethnicity, and class among the rural peasantry at various altitudinal zones. A major episode was the outbreak of violence initiated by student radicals at the local university against the local state in Oaxaca City and the one-party system of government favoured by Mexico’s PRI. Notes were made on the local market system, and two major excursions made to the northern and southern mountains. Following a short stay in Mexico City, I visited the Caribbean island of Barbuda in the Outer Leewards. Barbuda is claimed by all Barbudans together, and a record was made of the quest of the islanders for separation from neighbouring Antigua.
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Michael Higgins, Somos Gente Humilde: Etnografía de una Colonia Urbana Pobre de Oaxaca, 1974.
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Liverpool friends: John Dickenson and Paul Laxton, both in the Department of Geography at Liverpool University, and Fred O’Brien , my neighbour in Liverpool.
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Eleanor Sleight, The Many Faces of Cuilapan, 1988.
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At the time, Ross Parmenter was already well known for his book, Week in Yanhuitlán, 1964.
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John Codrington was the first son of Christopher Codrington, the original leasee of Barbuda (from the Crown).
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For a discussion of land issues and landownership , and especially the claim of Barbudans to be the joint owners of the island as a collectivity see David Lowenthal and Colin Clarke, ‘The Triumph of the Commons: Barbuda Belongs to All Barbudans Together,’ in Jean Besson and Janet Momsen (eds.), Caribbean Land and Development Revisited. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 147–158.
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This issue is examined in David Lowenthal and Colin G. Clarke, ‘Island Orphans: Barbuda and the Rest,’ Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, vol. 18, no. 3, 1980, 293–307.
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My 1961 visit to Donald Innis’s fieldwork site in Christiana , Jamaica, is described in Colin Clarke, Race, Class and the Politics of Decolonization: Jamaica Journals, 1961 and 1968, 88–89. See also Donald Q. Innis, ‘The Efficiency of Jamaican Peasant Land Use,’ Canadian Geographer, vol. 5, 1961, 19–23.
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For a discussion of Sir Christopher Bethell Codrington and the superfluity of children on Barbuda in the 1810s and 1820s see David Lowenthal and Colin G. Clarke, ‘Slave-Breeding in Barbuda: The Past of the Negro Myth,’ in Vera Rubin and Arthur Tuden (eds.), ‘Comparative Perspectives on Slavery in New World Plantation Societies, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 292, 1977, 510–535.
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Clarke, C. (2019). Oaxaca, Mexico, and Barbuda in 1978. In: Mexico and the Caribbean Under Castro's Eyes. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77170-0_5
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