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Rooting in a Useless Land

Ancient Farmers, Celebrity Chefs, and Environmental Justice in Yucatan

Chelsea Fisher (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

280 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39587-9 (ISBN)

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In Rooting in a Useless Land, Chelsea Fisher examines the deep histories of environmental-justice conflicts in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. She draws on her innovative archaeological research in Yaxunah, an Indigenous Maya farming community dealing with land dispossession, but with a surprising twist: Yaxunah happens to be entangled with prestigious sustainable-development projects initiated by some of the most famous chefs in the world. Fisher contends that these sustainable-development initiatives inadvertently bolster the useless-land narrative—a colonial belief that Maya forests are empty wastelands—which has been driving Indigenous land dispossession and environmental injustice for centuries. Rooting in a Useless Land explores how archaeology, practiced within communities, can restore history and strengthen relationships built on contested ground.

Chelsea Fisher is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Carolina.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Rooting in a Useless Land

1 • The Celebrity Chef Lands in Yaxunah
2 • Murderer of the Woodland
3 • Seeds of Permanence
4 • Taproot to Fibrous Root
5 • Lines in the Forest
6 • The Ghost of Chaipa Chi

Appendix A. Time Line of Key Events in the History of the Yaxunah Ejido
Appendix B. Comparison of Homesites Documented at Tzacauil

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.10.2023
Zusatzinfo	23 b-w illustrations; 2 maps; 2 tables
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-39587-5 / 0520395875
ISBN-13	978-0-520-39587-9 / 9780520395879
Zustand	Neuware