8. The Concejo as a Polity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. List of Tables xiii
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Introduction 3
7. Part One.
8. 1. A Portrait of a Landscape and of a People 21
9. Part Two
10. 2. The Village House 43
11. 3. An Archaeology of the House 54
12. 4. The Idiom of Equal Inheritance 68
13. 5. Parents and Children 89
14. 6. Setting Up House 104
15. Par Three
16. 7. The Concejo as an Assembly 125
17. 8. The Concejo as a Polity 147
18. 9. The Concejo as a Moral Presence 160
19. Part Four
20. 10. The Web of Use-Rights 189
21. 11. The Common Herds 203
22. 12. The Common Lands 226
23. 13. The Common Woods 242
24. 14. The State and the Commons 252
25. Part Five
26. 15. The Presence of the Past 267
27. Epilogue 286
28. Appendix A. Two Life Histories from Santa Maria 305
29. Appendix B. Population and Economy 316
30. Appendix C. Distribution of Responses to the Ateneo Questionnaire of 1901-1902 in the Province of Leon 322
31. Afterword 325
32. Notes 339
33. Weighs, Measures, and Monetary Units 387
34. Glossary 391
35. Principal Archival Sources 397
36. Bibliography 403
37. Index 419