EMPIRES CHILDREN: THE PEOPLE OF TZINTZUNTZAN FOSTER 



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



55 



Total male heads 251 1.38 53 23 



If omen 



Housekeeper 



Potter 



Storekeeper 



Domestic work. . . . 



Seamstress 



Petate maker 



Restaurant keeper. 



Total female heads. 

 Total family heads. 



19 

 16 



o 



1 

 1 

 1 

 1 



41 



292 



of Veracruz, where the author has worked, every- 

 body has his milpa, even though on the side he 

 may be carpenter or hunter. In that society 

 every son automatically follows his father, and 

 becomes first a farmer and secondarily a car- 

 penter, hunter, or fisher. In a heterogeneous 

 society one would expect to find much more oc- 

 cupational mobility. Because of the high degree 

 of specialization the opportunities for sons are 

 great, and individual interest will cause many 



to adopt work or professions other than that 

 of their fathers. In such a society one can ex- 

 pect to find that in certain professions the degree 

 of mobility is greater than in others, i.e., more 

 coal miners' sons become coal miners than doc- 

 tors' sons become doctors, and so forth. Tzin- 

 tzuntzan, as a traditional folk culture, might 

 logically be expected to show an intermediate 

 stage, and the statistics bear this out. For lack 

 of other data of this type the comparative value 



