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Haciendas, Estancias, and Fazendas
- large estastes where people worked for landowners or leased land as tenants or share croppers
- conditions on these estates varied widely
- Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil
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resident peons
unskilled workers that were residents
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indebted peons
- workers on haciendas that became indebted to the haciends and therefore were required to work until the debt was paid off
- this could include multiple generations o workers becaus children were expected to pay off their parents debt
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sharecroppers
rented land from the hacienda owner and paid with a portion of their crop (usually 50%)
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tenant farmers
rented land from haciendas and paid for it in the form of cash or a portion of their crops
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vaqueros
- cowboys in Mexico
- skilled horeseman
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gauchos
- cowboys of the Argentine plains
- symbol of feirce regionalism, local independence, crucial role in politics of the lower class, and importance of export economy
- roamed far and wide taking live stock to survive
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peublos
- villages
- important not to idealize
- very poor, heavily reliant on rainfall
- typical house: man, wife, children, peon, orphan, slave
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compadrazgo
- godparenthood
- slaves practiced this so that if they were to die, it was the responsibility of the god parents to take care of the children
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entertainment of the upper class
- formal dinners and dances
- concerts and operas
- religious fiestas
- bull fighting and gambling
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lower class entertainment
- community (folk) dancing
- religious fiestas
- cockfighting and gambling
- lots of drinking
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