ABSTRACT
Far-reaching forms of agricultural transformation are almost always synonymous with the substantial reorganization of cultivation or livestock-raising practices, with new or profoundly modified projects that alter the landscape and transform nature in quite noticeable ways. The villages had much in common in terms of the agricultural, household, religious, and festive projects through which socialization occurred and through which social relations between groups and the sexes were reproduced. The conduct of major agricultural projects required considerable daily path synchronization and spatial coordination among peasant household members as well as livestock and implements. The spatial and temporal coordination necessitated by major agricultural activities is well illustrated by plowing projects. A sense of social superiority and personal importance presumably became all the more common as elements of consciousness among better-off peasants when they declined to participate in some agricultural practices at the same time as the landless proletariat dwelling in each village rapidly expanded.
