ABSTRACT
The Zoogocho micro-region is a consortium of Zapotec Indigenous communities bound by political union and cultural ties. Small in size and lacking the timber resources of neighbouring communities, they were among the first villages in the Sierra Norte to take part in migration streams to other parts of Mexico and the United States. In this chapter, they present a set of illustrative cases to introduce the theme of change following migration, and what change means for the institutions of communitarian life that define people and place in rural Indigenous Oaxaca.
