Generations of Settlers: Rural Households and Markets on the Costa Rican Frontier, 1850-1935 by Mario Samper

Author:Mario Samper [Samper, Mario]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Science, General
ISBN: 9780429714542
Google: vimNDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-04T09:28:09+00:00

In comparison to the mid-nineteenth century, land was an even greater component of wealth estimates in 1895-1904. Value of livestock, equipment and other goods was usually quite low, and was not decisive in defining level of wealth despite a positive association between these values and wealth.47 In the province as a whole and in its main regions there were negative average credit balances, which reduced household wealth (Table 5,8). All this speaks of socioeconomic pressures on the smaller productive units, especially in and around the provincial capitel.

TABLE 5.8 VALUE OF VARIOUS ASSETS PER CASE, BY PLACE OF RESIDENCE OF DECEASED IN PROBATE INVENTORIES, ALAJUELA PROVINCE, 1895-1904

Average Value ($ or ¢)

ITEMS CAPITAL AND surroundings NORTHWEST ALAJUELA PROVINCE

Land 3,148.15 3,170.79 3,030.27

Livestock 76.33 155.93 113.77

Equipment 13.63 31.30 21.64

Other Movables* 139.80 200.28 143.85

Total Fortune 3,341.78 3,394.56 3,249.53

* Buildings, household goods, assorted movables.

Source: Probate inventories for 1895 -1904.

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