Examples of barrio

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
In the post-war period, barrio representatives increasingly filed accusations about illegal sales and usurpations of their lands by outsiders.
Colonial legal documents distinguished between two kinds of ayllu/ barrio land.
Second, barrio people actively negotiated the terms through which the land-for-labour arrangement was re-worked.
Municipal and political authorities could no longer prevent barrio communities from appointing their own judges and overseeing their own land allocation.
The buyers, the majority local families, affiliated with the surrounding barrio.
The ability of the ayuntamiento, the barrio, and the patronym group to carry out their functions became entirely dependent on the goodwill of their constituencies.
After the war, the town was forced to accept a legal re-classification of barrio lands.
Barrio people had certainly contributed to the fight against this form of labour service.
In archival and newspaper sources barrio people appear as flickering shadows.
Material in the municipal archive gives no evidence of open hostility on the part of barrio communities.
If barrio leaders were gaoled or excessively fined, they retaliated by blocking labour demands or disappearing.
I sent for one of the alcaldes de barrio and told him my wishes.
On paper, the grassroots level of decision-making and management in the camps resides at al-hayy (neighbourhood or barrio), each composed of about 200 tents.
A person could claim usufruct rights through the barrio of a parent (ancestral barrio), but not the barrio of a spouse (conjugal barrio).
Each barrio functioned as a confederacy of the patronym groups within its home territory.
The constituent households cooperated in ceremonial, political, and other matters, maintaining a common chapel and sponsoring events to honour barrio and town patron saints.
In the case of uxorilocal post-marital residence, the husband joined his wife's patronym group and barrio, and their children belonged to her barrio.
Operation 4, the figurine barrio workshop, was in one cluster, with low frequencies of both trade wares and serving wares.
In the 1870s, barrio people were described as either workers (operarios, trabajadores, semaneros, comuneros de semana) or as wretched pongos and indios.
There did not seem to be alternative female youth organisational forms in the barrio.
On other occasions, entire communities might work together till all the houses in a new or relocated barrio (sector within a village) were built.
Other letterwriters adopted the mantle of community promoters and highlighted how public works would uplift their barrio or town.
The legal position of barrio land was one such point.
In the event, barrio communities took matters into their own hands.
There were schools operating in every barrio at this date.
Under the town's dominion, barrio communities were considered to owe labour service in return for the protection of their lands.
We must now turn to the other part of the land-for-labour bargain : the town's claim to deploy barrio people in labour service.
By the mid nineteenth century, the barrio population numbered around 13,000 people, while the urban population was around 7,000.
All preferred that the municipal authority continue to act as personero (representative) of the barrios and retain its dominion over barrio land.
In their openness to change, barrio people often appeared more adaptable and forward-looking than the elite.
Although not the only crack users in the barrio, the gang was a privileged site of crack consumption, and pandilleros were deeply involved in such drugrelated violence.
The tiaxcas decided who among them would become the individual owner of record for the holdings of a given patronym group, barrio, or the town as a whole.
During the course of my fieldwork in the barrio in 1996-97, three inhabitants of the neighbourhood died as a result of delinquency by pandilleros from other barrios.
The term u matan miz be refers to a section of road to be swept and cleaned of weeds by a par ticular town, barrio, or person.
A person's barrio affiliation coincided with that of his or her patronym group, taking into account that most women joined the husband's patronym group upon marriage.
The barrio of the gente decente may indeed have been the southern hemisphere's most attractive, but that area was atypical of the rest of the capital.
The area of figurine production, with molds and heavy concentrations of figurines, was expanded to cover almost 10 ha, suggesting a barrio of households specializing in figurine manufacture.
Bilingualism in the barrio, 2nd ed., 347- 479.
Attracting teenagers from throughout the city, the dances moved from barrio to barrio every weekend, and news of upcoming aguelulos was usually spread by word of mouth.
Traditional festivities known as "barrio fiestas" (district festivals) to commemorate the feast days of patron saints are common.
From
Wikipedia