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Table 8. — Occupations of family heads and of their fathers 



Occupations of 

 family heads 



iMen 



Potter (full time) 



Potter and 



Farmer 



Rescaton 



Day laborer 



Mason 



Fisherman 



Carpenter 



Shoemaker 



Farmer and rescaton . . . . 



Day laborer and rescaton 



Total 



Farmer (full time) 



Farmer and 



Day laborer 



Rescaton 



Rescaton and day laborer 



Rescaton and singer 



Net weaver 



Municipal employee 



Mason 



Day laborer and petate maker. 



Total. 



Fisherman (full time) 



Fisherman and 



Farmer 



Day laborer 



Rescaton 



Farmer and petati? maker 



Farmer and day laborer 



Farmer and rescaton .... 



Day laborer and rescaton 



Total 



Day laborer (full time). 

 Day laborer and 



Mason 



Petate maker 



Total. 



22 



18 



6 



18 



4 

 .3 



.•52 



18 



U 



17 



Occupation of father 



94 82 



13 

 15 



147 117 12 



12 



20 



























2 5 

 1 1 



of petates. The case of Jesii-s Huipe is unique: 

 carpenter, potter, mason, common laborer, and 

 barber, and, contrary to the axiom, he is master 

 of all. He comes by his talent naturally; his 

 father is mason, blacksmith, farmer, potter, car- 

 penter, and petate maker. 



Approximately half of the women jefes are 

 domeslicas. housekeepers without other occupa- 

 tion. Sixteen are potters, two keep stores, one 

 is a maid, one a seamstress, one a petate maker. 



and one a fondera, proprietor of a "restaurant" 

 where the few commercial travelers are fed. 



A comparison of occupations of male heads 

 of families with that of their fathers is reveal- 

 ing. Presumably in a very homogeneous com- 

 munity, such as some of the simpler Indian 

 groups of Mexico, one would expect to find a 

 high correlation between occupations of fathers 

 and sons. To a large extent this is the result 

 of little division of work. Among the Popoluca 



