Rooting in a Useless Land (eBook)

Ancient Farmers, Celebrity Chefs, and Environmental Justice in Yucatan

Chelsea Fisher (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
280 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39588-6 (ISBN)

Infos

In Rooting in a Useless Land, Chelsea Fisher examines the deep histories of environmental-justice conflicts in Mexicos Yucatn 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 narrativea colonial belief that Maya forests are empty wastelandswhich 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.

Inhalt

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 
 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.10.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Agave • Agricultural practice • building techniques • Cenotes • Ceramics • Colonialism • ejidos • excavations • factory farms • indigenous maya farmers • Kaan Group • land relations • Maize • milpa • Sovereignty • sustainability • Tourism • Traditional Ecological Knowledge • Tzacauil
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39588-3 / 0520395883
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39588-6 / 9780520395886