Zapotec science : farming and food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca
/ Roberto J. González
- 1st ed.
- Austin : University of Texas Press , c2001.
- xii, 328 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-318) and index.
Zapotec farmers in the northern sierra of Oaxaca, Mexico, are highly successful in providing their families with abundant, nutritious food in an ecologically sustainable fashion, although the premises that guide their agricultural practices would be considered erroneous by the standards of most agronomists and botanists in the United States and Europe. In this book, Roberto González convincingly argues that in fact Zapotec agricultural and dietary theories and practices constitute a valid local science, which has had a reciprocally beneficial relationship with European and United States farming and food systems since the sixteenth century.
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Zapotec Indians Indians of Mexico---Agriculture Subsistence economy----Mexico Sustainable Development