Zapotec science : farming and food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca / Roberto J. González
Material type: TextPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press , c2001.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 328 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780292728325
- LAS 630.972 GON
- F1221.Z3 G66 2001
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Latin American Studies | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. | LAS 630.972 GON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 040058 |
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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