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Commerce and finance — Continued 



Travel 147 



The domestic economy' 150 



Labor division 151 



The daily round 151 



W ork patterns 153 



Family budgets 156 



Food 162 



V ealth and ijro[)erty 169 



Land ownership 169 



Inheritance 175 



Government 176 



Munici[)al orpanizalion 176 



Taxes and salaries 179 



Elections 181 



Sinarquism 183 



Law and justice 186 



Municii)al fiestas 187 



Inde])endence Day 187 



Fiesta of the Municipio of Tzintzuntzan . . 188 



Religion 188 



Historical notes 188 



Church structures 189 



The church bells 190 



La Soledad and its furnishings 191 



Religious ()ersonnel 193 



The priest and his aides 193 



The cargueros 195 



CarguiTOs lie la Judea 196 



Cart:,itcros de San Francisco 198 



Carf^ucros de San Isidro 198 



Cari^ueros de San Mip,ucl 198 



Cargueros de la Soledad 198 



Cargueros de la Capilla de Guadalupe . 200 



Other cargueros 201 



The religious associations 202 



The Tliird Order of San Francisco .... 202 



The Perpetual Candle 203 



The Society of Our Lady of Cuadalu|)e . 203 

 The Apostolic Society of the .Sacred 



Heart of Jesus 203 



Minor societies 204 



The ceremonial year 204 



Epiphany, January 6 204 



Candlemas, February 2 204 



Fiesta of Nuestro .Senor del Rescate .... 20 !> 



Lent 209 



Ash Wednesday 209 



The Six Fridays 209 



I'alm Sunday 210 



Holy Week 210 



1 Tables 23 — 31, wliicli deal with the domestic economy, 

 are placed at the end of the moiioKraph. 



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 Religion — Continued 



The ceremonial year — Continued 



Holy Wednesday 210 



Maundy Thursday 210 



Good Friday 212 



Easter Saturday 214 



Ascension Thursday 214 



The month of May 214 



Holy Cross Day, May 3 215 



Day of San Lsidro, May 15 215 



Corpus Christi and the Octava 215 



Cor])us Christi 216 



The Octava 217 



The month of June 218 



The Assumption 218 



Fiesta of San Francisco, October 4 218 



All Saints' and All Souls' Days, Novem- 

 ber 1-2 219 



Procession of the Virgin of Guadalupe, 



November 11 221 



Fiesta of the Virgin of Guadalupe, De- 

 cember 12 221 



Summary 222 



The life cycle 224 



Pregnancy and birth 224 



Statistical data on births 228 



Infancy and childhood 230 



Names 230 



Infant care 233 



Activities of older children 2.37 



Games 238 



Schooling 240 



Literacy 245 



Puberty and youth 245 



Marriage 247 



(Courtship 247 



Ty|)es of ceremonies 249 



A marriage case history 251 



Statistical data 256 



The adult status 259 



Marital relationships 259 



The compadrazgo system 262 



Household comjiosition 264 



Disease and curing 266 



Old age and death 268 



Position of the aged 268 



I'"unerary procedures 268 



Death statistics 270 



From the ethnographer's notebook 273 



Summary and conclusions 282 



Glossary 291 



Bibliogra]iliy 293 



Index 295 



IV 



