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Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca

Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca

González, Roberto J.

Paperback

AnthropologyAgricultureMexican History

ISBN10: 0292728328
ISBN13: 9780292728325
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Aug 1 2001
Pages: 342
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.04
Language: English

2003 -- Julian Steward Award - Anthropology & Environment Section, American Anthropological Association
2002 -- A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book

How Zapotec agricultural and dietary theories and practices constitute a valid local science.

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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