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Local indigenous society in the Toluca Valley, Mexico, is viewed as an unfortunate, disproportionable group of peoples trying to pay off debts to the local landlords. Caterina Pizzigoni emphasizes on the household factors that contributed to how Toluca folk dealt with daily life out in public and in the economic sphere of this location. Cultivations of maize and maguey were essential to making these towns develop sufficiently. The maguey plant could be used up to a variety of either food or material fuel. The maguey upheld its ecological advantages among the Toluca peoples to help pay off those who controlled their well-being with low-wage rental housing and unequal debts.
In accordance with what my colleague Diana Tran was stating, what’s interesting if not apparent enough in chapter 5 of The Life Within is that the majority of individuals who may have possibly profited well from maguey cultivation were in fact women. “Gender affects maguey cultivation, but not in the same way as with house and distant land” (pg. 146). It was easy to own the product, but not the vicinity of where it developed from. But unless you were a male client, it was slightly the opposite. Men concentrated more on maize and livestock shares than just the plant alone.
The ancestral connections drawn out between the peoples mentioned in this reading show us how the maguey served a financial purpose, as well as localized vocabulary techniques when producing the source. When they discovered how to extract pulque juice from the capone maguey (already cut), the process was done in some particular way that resembled the way they “castrate” a rooster. This allowed them to modify their vocabulary with whatever they happened to have been innovating at the time, since capone comes from the Spanish word capar meaning “to castrate”. Pulquerias were established for both festivals and market consumption of maguey for young Toluca customers seeking to make ends meet among the product themselves.