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The Spread of Literacy in a Latin American Peasant Society: Oaxaca, Mexico, 1890 to 1980

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Stephen A. Kowalewski  and
Jacqueline J. Saindon
Stephen A. Kowalewski
Affiliation:
University of Georgia
Jacqueline J. Saindon
Affiliation:
Georgia State University
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The object of this essay has been to help examine spatiotemporal variation in literacy. The research reported here centered on the Valley of Oaxaca, an agricultural region in southern Mexico, during the period from 1890 to 1980. The data consist of a systematic compilation of tax and voting lists from the nineteenth century, census responses from 1890 to 1980, community ethnographies, published histories and biographies, and government reports. Attending to both the spatial and the temporal scales of events and causes was methodologically important for this research.

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The Limits of Literacy
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , January 1992 , pp. 110 - 140
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1992

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