ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the author's anthropological fieldwork enterprise as he first tried to comprehend a seemingly classic indigenous peasant community encouraging certain kinds of change. In the continuation of his research over four decades he began to consider the rapid broadening of this cultural landscape under the impact of globalization. During the past decade the author have adopted new visual and digital research approaches to document transformed cultural spaces and scripts that are dramatically altering family organization, work collaboration, mate choice, gender expectations, and shifting generational lines of power. Developing a compadre relationship is a quite common experience of anthropologists who work for extended periods in Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America. More importantly Wolf was one of the first anthropologists to develop a dynamic model for understanding the mutual dependence and interaction between such communities and the ever-expanding urban centers.
