San Bartolo y Cuxtepeques: Lengua, tierra y población en la Depresión Central de Chiapas

• Main Author: Óscar Barrera
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Centro de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos 2015-01-01
• Series: Trace
• Subjects: moving languages; ladinoization; migration; ruralisation; San Bartolomé.
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/trace/2108

Throughout the second half of the eighteenth century, the village of San Bartolo and its adjoining estates together formed the largest population of the bishopric of Chiapas. Surprisingly, throughout the second half of the nineteenth century the number of inhabitants in this town did not increase. In the early nineteenth century, there was a strong expansion of rural property that tripled the ten farms that existed in the region of San Bartolomé and Cuxtepeques Valley. This proposal seeks to understand the stagnation, ruralization and indianization of the inhabitants of San Bartolomé, mainly for the indigenous and Ladino migration processes between the fields and the village.