Agriculture, Ecology and Domestic Organization Among the Kekchi Maya
Theses
Author/Creator
Richard Ralph Wilk
Description
Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1981.
A study on Indigenous entrepreneur Bernard Naraseau, whose subsistence strategy breaks the traditional understanding of using either an Indigenous or settler approach for living during the nineteenth century.
Discusses the five themes which emerged from the Forum on Indigenous Agriculture: centring Indigenous knowledge and traditional relationships to the land, building capacity and respectful partnerships and relationships, financing farming and equitable economies, and translating research to policy and legislation.