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Without haciendas to compete with the more exploitative Spanish system, mita districts were subjected to greater economic and health pressures from their labor. Melissa Dell has shown that the repercussions of this disparity have persisted past the end of the mita system as mita districts were less integrated with the greater road network. [17]
The Mita Congregation (Spanish: Congregación Mita) is a Christian denomination with headquarters in Puerto Rico. The congregation has chapters in the United States , Canada , Venezuela , Colombia , Ecuador , Chile , Panama , Costa Rica , Mexico , El Salvador , Italy and the Dominican Republic .
Juanita García Peraza also known as "Mita" (June 24, 1897 – February 21, 1970) was the founder of the Mita Congregation, a christian denomination with Puerto Rican origins which is described in Melton's Encyclopedia of Protestantism. When Peraza died, the Senate of Puerto Rico closed their offices for three days in her honor.
Mita or MITA can refer to: Mita (name) Mit'a or mita, a form of public service in the Inca Empire and later in the Viceroyalty of Peru; Mita, Meguro, Tokyo, a neighborhood in Tokyo, Japan; Mita, Minato, Tokyo, a neighborhood in Tokyo, Japan; Mita Dōri, a road in Tokyo, Japan; Mita Elementary School, a school in Tokyo, Japan
Punta Mita is a 1,500-acre (6.1 km 2) private peninsula that is home to the Four Seasons Punta Mita, St. Regis Punta Mita, Conrad Hilton, and 16 sub-communities. Punta Mita is located on the north end of Banderas Bay in the Mexican state of Nayarit , about 10 miles (16 km) north of Puerto Vallarta , Jalisco .
Collective reciprocal labor may be structured in three ways: The first was the ayni, which served to assist members and families of the society in need; the second was the minka, or collective effort for the good of the whole community, and included the construction of public works; the mita, or tribute charged to the Inca, was the third, and ...
Warfield Moose Jr. is an Oglala Lakota spiritual leader, wisdom keeper, and executive director of the Mita Oyate Cultural Society. ... without knowledge of its history, that they are, in some way ...
Economic productivity was based on collective labor which was organized to benefit the whole community. The ayni was used to help individual members of the community in need, such as a sick member of the community. The Minka or teamwork represented community service and the Mita was the tax paid to the Inca in the form of labor.