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Culture, Place, and Nature Ser.: Enclosed : Conservation, Cattle, and Commerce among the Q'eqchi' Maya Lowlanders by Liza Grandia (2012, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Washington Press
ISBN-100295991666
ISBN-139780295991665
eBay Product ID (ePID)112668887
Product Key Features
Number of Pages304 Pages
Publication NameEnclosed : Conservation, Cattle, and Commerce Among the Q'eqchi' Maya Lowlanders
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2012
SubjectInternational / Economics, Globalization, Indigenous Studies, Economic Conditions, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Latin America / Central America
TypeTextbook
AuthorLiza Grandia
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
SeriesCulture, Place, and Nature Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight15.2 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2011-034987
Reviews"The book is well crafted and clearly written...a significant contribution to environmental anthropology and an important ethnography about the Q'eqchi'." - Sean S. Downey , Current Anthropology, "Liza Grandia connects global economics, local livelihoods, and concerns for cultural survival in a way few writers manage to do. Enclosed makes transparent the social processes underpinning tropical deforestation, entrenched poverty, and the vulnerabilities created by global capital." Nora Haenn, author of Fields of Power, Forests of Discontent: Culture, Conservation and the State of Mexico "A compelling read and a significant scholarly contribution to our understanding of indigenous communities dealing with the destructive but also seductive penetration of global corporate interests." Eugene Hunn, author of A Zapotec Natural History: Trees, Herbs, and Flowers, Birds, Beasts, and Bugs in the Life of San Juan Gbee " Enclosed is an engaged and engaging account of contested resources that seeks to demonstrate the impacts of historical and contemporary land enclosures on Q'eqchi' livelihoods, migration, resource use, and resistance. Grandia uses history and ethnography to show that while 'globalization is nothing new to the Q'eqchi'', its scale and specifics have changed over the last 500 years."--Sophie Haines, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute , 2013, "Grandia revela cmo la historia de las luchas de los q'eqchi's contra el cercamiento de sus tierras puede contribuir a una mayor comprensin de los cercamientos de las tierras comunales a favor de las empresas en todo el mundo." - Kurt Holder , Mesoamerica, "Seamlessly merges a close analysis of the processes that lead to deforestation in northern Guatemala's forests with its preceding agrarian history. Nowhere have I encountered such a cogent and illuminating illustration of the processes that lead to the 'invasion' of national parks and preserves in Latin America." - Molly Doane , Anthropological Quarterly, Volume 86, No. 2, ". . . insightful, comprehensive, and authoritative . . . Grandia has made a significant contribution to environmental anthropology and to our understanding of neoliberalism and contemporary land and labor issues in Latin America." - Molly Doane , Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 86(2), " Enclosed is an engaged and engaging account of contested resources that seeks to demonstrate the impacts of historical and contemporary land enclosures on Q'eqchi' livelihoods, migration, resource use, and resistance." - Sophie Haines , Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute , December 2013, "Grandia masterfully addresses how Q'eqchi' Maya subsistence farmers lose the lands previously secured at great personal cost . . . Grandia insightfully synthesizes scads of studies, analyzes neglected raw data, and provides the ethnography of communities she has studied for 18-plus years to make her case. Highly recommended." - A. E. Adams , Choice , October 2012
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal330.97281
Table Of ContentForeword by K. Sivaramakrishnan Preface Acknowledgements Q'eqchi' Language and Orthography Notes on Measurements Maps Introduction: Commons Past 1. Liberal Plunder: A Recurring Q'eqchi' History 2. Maya Gringos: Q'eqchi' Lowland Migration and Territorial Expansion 3. Commons, Customs, and Carrying Capacities: The Property and Population Traps of the Peten Frontier 4. Speculating: The World Bank's Market-Assisted Land Reform 5. From Colonial to Corporate Capitalism: Expanding Cattle Frontiers 6. The Neoliberal Auction: The PPP and the DR-CAFTA Conclusion: Common Features Glossary Acronyms Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisHighlights an urgent problem for indigenous communities around the world--repeated displacement from their lands, This impassioned and rigorous analysis of the territorial plight of the Q'eqchi Maya of Guatemala highlights an urgent problem for indigenous communities around the world - repeated displacement from their lands. Liza Grandia uses the tools of ethnography, history, cartography, and ecology to explore the recurring enclosures of Guatemala's second largest indigenous group, who number a million strong. Having lost most of their highland territory to foreign coffee planters at the end of the 19th century, Q'eqchi' people began migrating into the lowland forests of northern Guatemala and southern Belize. Then, pushed deeper into the frontier by cattle ranchers, lowland Q'eqchi' found themselves in conflict with biodiversity conservationists who established protected areas across this region during the 1990s. The lowland, maize-growing Q'eqchi' of the 21st century face even more problems as they are swept into global markets through the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) and the Puebla to Panama Plan (PPP). The waves of dispossession imposed upon them, driven by encroaching coffee plantations, cattle ranches, and protected areas, have unsettled these agrarian people. Enclosed describes how they have faced and survived their challenges and, in doing so, helps to explain what is happening in other contemporary enclosures of public "common" space. A Capell Family Book Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTLvmg3mHE8, This impassioned and rigorous analysis of the territorial plight of the Q'eqchi Maya of Guatemala highlights an urgent problem for indigenous communities around the world - repeated displacement from their lands. Liza Grandia uses the tools of ethnography, history, cartography, and ecology to explore the recurring enclosures of Guatemala's second largest indigenous group, who number a million strong. Having lost most of their highland territory to foreign coffee planters at the end of the 19th century, Q'eqchi' people began migrating into the lowland forests of northern Guatemala and southern Belize. Then, pushed deeper into the frontier by cattle ranchers, lowland Q'eqchi' found themselves in conflict with biodiversity conservationists who established protected areas across this region during the 1990s. The lowland, maize-growing Q'eqchi' of the 21st century face even more problems as they are swept into global markets through the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA) and the Puebla to Panama Plan (PPP). The waves of dispossession imposed upon them, driven by encroaching coffee plantations, cattle ranches, and protected areas, have unsettled these agrarian people. Enclosed describes how they have faced and survived their challenges and, in doing so, helps to explain what is happening in other contemporary enclosures of public "common" space. A Capell Family Book Watch the book trailer: https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTLvmg3mHE8
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