Family of the south Mexican border, at the first decades of XXth century

Allan Ortega, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Centro INAH Quintana Roo)

The study of family outside of the central sites, like principal cities of Latin-American world (Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Caracas, and others) was considered like secondary or non-important in the construction of the modern concept of the family. Accordingly, this issue it so important to study in several regions of a nation-state to try reconstruct or understand a different kind of types of families that they compound the nation. The current analysis show how many types or categories of families interlace one to other y how keep by self their identity. To achieve this goal. I reconstructed 415 partners or families; of these, we had reconstructed 863 mothers and 821 fathers of the border between Mexico and Belize from 1885 to 1955. To each one family I assigned a kind of “intimate culture” a concept from the framework of regional cultural analysis (dominant, residual, emergent) and I made exo/endogamy ratios within these categories.