campesino

cultivator

Soil-turning implement

• tillerBoat steering lever
• sowerOne who plants seeds
• harvesterCrop-collecting machine

planter · grower · husbandman · plowman · cropper · agriculturalist · sharecropper · subsistence · smallholder · landholding

countryside

Rural area beyond towns

• villageSmall rural community
• provincialRegional or narrow-minded
• homesteadFamily farm and dwelling

campo · rancho · pueblo · hacienda · finca · rustic · pastoral · bucolic · agrarian · land

revolution

Violent governmental overthrow

• uprisingOrganized resistance to power
• resistanceCapacity to withstand force
• solidarityUnity among allies

cooperative · collective · union · movement · struggle · liberation · organizing · bracero · farmworker

herder

Livestock caretaker

• shepherdOne who tends flocks
• goatherdKeeper of caprines
• swineherdLivestock tender for swine

pastoralist · stockman · cattleman · herdsman · drover · livestock · grazing · milking · shearer · gaucho

peasantry

Rural working class

• villagerRural community inhabitant
• commonerNon-noble person
• serfBonded agricultural laborer

tenant · landless · bondservant · vassal · peon · toiler · impoverished · subsistence · underclass · indigenous

traditions

Long-established customs passed down

• customsTraditional practices or import taxes
• ancestorsThose from whom one descends
• oral-historyRecorded firsthand accounts

legends · storytelling · festivals · fiestas · rituals · corrido · ranchera

• trabajadores agrícolaslabrador, bracero
• agriculturacampo, tierra, tractor, arroz, cereal
• farmworkersfarmhand, farmworker, farm laborer, field hand, farm hand
• Mexican Farmingmaize, hacienda, nopal, nopales, agave
• rural workerspeasant, farm laborer, farmhand, farmworker, field hand
• ejido systemcommunal land, land redistribution, agrarian reform, communal ownership, Emiliano Zapata