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Communities in Michoacán, Mexico that were presented Hijuelas during the Privatization of Indigenous Land, 1719‐1929

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Citation
Title
Communities in Michoacán, Mexico that were presented Hijuelas during the Privatization of Indigenous Land, 1719‐1929
Creation Date
2020-06-24
Publication Date
2020-06-24
Geospatial Data Presentation Form
mapDigital
Abstract
The communities are organized by their late 19th century political divisions and possess other attribute data such as the category of settlement, population circa 1880, tenencia status, alternate names, languages spoken and reference numbers for the UT metadata and the British Library’s digital collection of deed books. The communities in this map were found in michoacanodeed books, digitized as a part of the British Library’s “Conserving Indigenous Memories of Land Privatisation in Mexico: Michoacán’s Libros de Hijuelas, 1719-1929 (EAP931)” through the Endangered Archives Project in collaboration with LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections. The map connects--via reference numbers--the metadata hosted by UT (LADI) and the actual digitized volumes held by the British Library to the relevant community. This allows for the hijuelascollection to be explored spatially. The map also contains the result of primary research in 19th century sources: the political divisions, categories of settlement (ciudad, villa, pueblo, hacienda, etc.), population data, languages spoken, and alternate names and spellings for each of the 228 communities mapped.
Purpose
Map of the 228 communities in Michoacán, México that participated in the 19th century liberal privatization of indigenous land known as the reparto de tierras (1868-1929.)
Bounding Box
West
-103.533061
East
-100.116667
North
20.380782
South
18.24101
ISO Topic Category
society
structure
Place Keyword
Michoacán, Mexico
Place Keyword Thesaurus
Temporal Keyword
1719-1929, 1868-1929
Theme Keyword
Libros de Hijuelas, 1719-1929
Reparto de Tierras, 1868-1929
Liberal Privatization of Indigenous Land
Indigenous History of Mexico
Purépecha
Michoacán
Mexico--Politics and government--Nineteenth-century Liberalism
Mexico--History--Dissolution of Corporate Land Holdings
Mexico--History--Agrarian History
Theme Keyword Thesaurus
Maintenance and Update Frequency
asNeeded
Language
eng
Credit
Verduzco Sandoval, Rocío (Creation of Initial Data set from Deed Books); Erard, John D. (Data Structuring Visualization); Palacios, Albert A. (Data Processing); Shensky, Michael (Data Processing)
Point of Contact
Contact
LLILAS Benson Digital Scholarship
Position Name
Research Unit
Email
llilasbensondigitalscholarship@gmail.com

Spatial Reference Information

Reference System Identifier
Code
4326
Code Space
EPSG
Version
6.14(3.0.1)

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Statement
Names of the 228 localities have been taken from a list collated by Rocío Verduzco Sandoval, the leader of the hijuelas digitization team and a student of the Universidad Michoacana San Nicolás Hidalgo (UMSNH). The location data, in decimal coordinates, was taken from 2020 INEGI map data via Google Maps, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency GEOnet Names Server (GNS), INEGI’s 2005 and 2010 Mexican census data, and the 1992 Gazetteer of Mexico by the U.S. Defense Mapping Agency. In rare cases where no location data could be found in the above sources, a georeferenced 19th century map of Mexico from the Mapoteca Orozco y Berra was used in conjunction with Google satellite imagery to pinpoint the likely location of small communities that had disappeared from modern maps. The “longitude” and “latitude” fields were then used to create point features on a map. The “district,” “municipality,” “type_of_comunity, ” and “population” fields were sourced with data from a 19th century alphabetic index of Mexican communities and a geographic dictionary from the same period. The “tenencia” field was sourced from Sandoval’s initial list and was supplemented when necessary by the 1880 geographic dictionary. The “other_names/spellings” field was sourced from the UT generated metadata for the digital libros de hijuelas collection held at the British Library through the Endangered Archives Project (EAP.) The language data was pulled from an 1864 work by Orozco y Berra entitled Geografía de las lenguas y carta etnográfica de México: precedidas de un ensayo de clasificación de las mismas lenguas y de apuntes para las inmigraciones de las tribus and Cubas’ 1888 Diccionario. The reference numbers in the last two fields come from item level descriptions of the hijuelas volumes on the EAP project site, or from UT hijuelas metadata when a community was not mentioned in any item deception. This data comes from the Benson Latin American Collection and is part of the Archivo General e Histórico del Poder Ejecutivo de Michoacán collection.

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Format Name
Shapefile
Format Version
1
Online Access
Protocol
Name

Spatial Representation Information

Vector
Topology Level
geometryOnly
Vector Object Type
point
Vector Object Count
228

Metadata Reference Information

Hierarchy Level
dataset
Metadata File Identifier
utblac__ladi__aghpem__point__1__michoacan_hijuelas_communities
Metadata Date Stamp
2021-09-17
Metadata Standard Name
ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
Metadata Standard Version
2007
Character Set
utf8
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