LEADER 04898nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910777511703321 005 20210106221014.0 010 $a0-292-79644-7 024 7 $a10.7560/728318 035 $a(CKB)1000000000461895 035 $a(OCoLC)191933018 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10192292 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000276233 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11218854 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000276233 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10223247 035 $a(PQKB)10431452 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443095 035 $a(DE-B1597)587804 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292796447 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000461895 100 $a20150424d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aZapotec Science$b[electronic resource] $eFarming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca /$fRoberto J. Gonzl?ez 210 $aAustin, TX, USA $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2001 210 $cUniversity of Texas Press 215 $a1 online resource (343 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-72831-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 295-318) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tFigures -- $tTables -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1. The Conceptual Bases of Zapotec Farming and Foodways -- $t2. Locating Talea: Geography, History, and Cultural Contexts -- $t3. The Craft of the Campesino: Measures, Implements, and Artifacts -- $t4. ??Maize Has a Soul??: Rincón Zapotec Notions of Living Matter -- $t5. From Milpa to Tortilla: Growing, Eating, and Exchanging Maize -- $t6. Sweetness and Reciprocity: SugarcaneWork -- $t7. The Invention of ??Traditional?? Agriculture: The History and Meanings of Coffee -- $t8. Agriculture Unbound: Cultivating the Ground between Science Traditions -- $tAppendix A. Pronunciation of Rincón Zapotec Terms -- $tAppendix B. Talean Food Plants -- $tAppendix C. Talean Livestock and Game Animals -- $tAppendix D. Selected Average Crop Yields -- $tAppendix E. Recipes -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aZapotec 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. González bases his analysis upon direct participant observation in the farms and fields of a Zapotec village. By using the ethnographic fieldwork approach, he is able to describe and analyze the rich meanings that campesino families attach to their crops, lands, and animals. González also reviews the history of maize, sugarcane, and coffee cultivation in the Zapotec region to show how campesino farmers have intelligently and scientifically adapted their farming practices to local conditions over the course of centuries. By setting his ethnographic study of the Talea de Castro community within a historical world systems perspective, he also skillfully weighs the local impact of national and global currents ranging from Spanish colonialism to the 1910 Mexican Revolution to NAFTA. At the same time, he shows how, at the turn of the twenty-first century, the sustainable practices of "traditional" subsistence agriculture are beginning to replace the failed, unsustainable techniques of modern industrial farming in some parts of the United States and Europe. 606 $aZapotec Indians$xAgriculture 606 $aZapotec Indians$xFood 606 $aTraditional farming$zMexico$zSan Miguel Talea de Castro 606 $aSubsistence economy$zMexico$zSan Miguel Talea de Castro 606 $aSustainable development$zMexico$zSan Miguel Talea de Castro 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE$2bisac 606 $aEthnic Studies / Native American Studies$2bisac 607 $aSan Miguel Talea de Castro (Mexico)$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aZapotec Indians$xAgriculture. 615 0$aZapotec Indians$xFood. 615 0$aTraditional farming 615 0$aSubsistence economy 615 0$aSustainable development 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE 615 7$aEthnic Studies / Native American Studies 676 $a630/.972/74 700 $aGonzl?ez$b Roberto J$01467498 801 0$bPQKB 801 2$bAzTeS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777511703321 996 $aZapotec Science$93678166 997 $aUNINA