Transcending Time and Space: Historias de Convivencia in Rural El Salvador

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dc.contributorFitz-Gibbons, Desmond
dc.contributorCastro, Esther
dc.contributorHuezo, Stephanie
dc.contributor.advisorRenda, Mary
dc.contributor.authorVillatoro-Alvarez, Rebeca Sarai
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-14T18:27:58Z
dc.date.available2023-07-14T18:27:58Z
dc.date.gradyear2023en_US
dc.date.issued2023-07-14EN
dc.descriptionThesis is also written in Spanish.en_US
dc.description.abstractYucuaiquin is a small pueblo in La Union, El Salvador, hidden between mountains. In Poton, the Indigenous tongue to Lenca peoples, it means “tierra de fuego” or “land of fire.” My research asks about the history of daily life in Yucuaiquin before and after El Salvador’s war (1979-1990), and for yucuaiquinenses who subsequently moved to the Greater Boston area. My approach to this work honors the oral history and storytelling tradition of Yucuaiquin by using interviews and convivencia (shared life, time, and dwelling) with people to learn the history of the pueblo. Given the limited scholarship on the history of Yucuaiquin, this project required a creative approach. Interdisciplinary scholarship from sociologists, anthropologists, economists, psychologists, and historians of other places filled in some gaps, as did memoirs. But sharing time with yucuaiquinenses who migrated to Greater Boston and with community members in Yucuaiquin, engaging in their daily routines of selling, cooking, building, attending church, and such, has been crucial to my research. From these community relationships my central question emerged: How have rural salvadoreñes and yucuaiquinenses understood what it means to live together? I explore this question through histories of water, commerce and labor, and migration. Routines around access to water, street commerce, and transnational migration have been areas of struggle as yucuaiquinenses have contended with systemic forces – colonialism, privatization, wealth disparities, and imperialism.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipHistoryen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10166/6456
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rights.restrictedpublicen_US
dc.subjectEl Salvadoren_US
dc.subjectYucuaiquinen_US
dc.subjectRuralen_US
dc.subjectWateren_US
dc.subjectImmigrationen_US
dc.subjectConvivenciaen_US
dc.subjectCivil Waren_US
dc.subjectCommerceen_US
dc.subjectLaboren_US
dc.titleTranscending Time and Space: Historias de Convivencia in Rural El Salvadoren_US
dc.typeThesis
mhc.degreeUndergraduateen_US
mhc.institutionMount Holyoke College

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