The formation of the state and of communal lands (ejidos) in a part of la huasteca potosina, 1920-1945

Abstract

he main focus of this paper is the process of the formation of communal
lands in a selected area as part of the formation and construction of the postrevolutionary
state. In this sense, it seeks to retrieve a signiicant part of the
local history, the speeches and examples of peasant leadership of the municipality
of Tanlajas, encompassing them in a major historical context. Furthermore,
the present contribution aims at combining oral history and the
documented history available in the Historic Archives of the National Agrarian
Oice of San Luís Potosí with ield evidence, especially by elaborating
original cartography on forms of land ownership until 1920 in a gis format,
in order to study the processes of the agrarian reform. he use of the gis tools
has allowed a novel insight into the interpretation of the maps available in the
agrarian records, and it has led to a better present-day geographic localization
of the historical forms of land ownership.