Liza Grandia

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Enclosed: Conservation, Cattle, and Commerce Among the q'Eqchi' Maya LowlandersPaperback, 15 March 2012

Enclosed: Conservation, Cattle, and Commerce Among the q'Eqchi' Maya Lowlanders
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Part of Series
Culture, Place, and Nature
Part of Series
Culture, Place, and Nature: Studies in Anthropology and Environment
Print Length
304 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Date Published
15 Mar 2012
ISBN-10
0295991666
ISBN-13
9780295991665

Description

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.

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Product Details

Author:
Liza Grandia
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
15 March 2012
Dimensions:
22.61 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm
ISBN-10:
0295991666
ISBN-13:
9780295991665
Language:
English
Location:
Seattle
Pages:
304
Weight:
498.95 gm

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