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"Coming of age in the jungle, among the Kekchi and Mopan Maya, Fry learned to teach, to barter and negotiate, to hold her ground, and to share her space - and, perhaps most important, she learned to cook." "This is the funny, heartfelt, and provocative story of how Fry painstakingly baked and boiled her way up the food chain, from instant oatmeal and flour tortillas to bush-green soup, agouti (a big rodent), gibnut (a bigger rodent), and, finally, something even the locals wouldn't tackle: a "mountain cow," or tapir. Fry's efforts to win over her neighbors and hair-pulling students offers a rare and insightful picture of the Kekchi Maya of Belize, even as this unique culture was disappearing before her eyes."--Jacket.
Kekchi Indians --- Maya cooking. --- Cookery, Maya --- Maya cookery --- Mayan cooking --- Cooking --- Cacchi Indians --- Cakchi Indians --- Qʾeqchiʾ Indians --- Quekchi Indians --- Indians of Central America --- Mayas --- Social life and customs. --- Rites and ceremonies.
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" As cultural mediators, Chamelco's market women offer a model of contemporary Q'eqchi' identity grounded in the strength of the Maya historical legacy. Guatemala's Maya communities have faced nearly five hundred years of constant challenges to their culture, from colonial oppression to the instability of violent military dictatorships and the advent of new global technologies. In spite of this history, the people of San Juan Chamelco, Guatemala, have effectively resisted significant changes to their cultural identities. Chamelco residents embrace new technologies, ideas, and resources to strengthen their indigenous identities and maintain Maya practice in the 21st century, a resilience that sets Chamelco apart from other Maya towns. Unlike the region's other indigenous women, Chamelco's Q'eqchi' market women achieve both prominence and visibility as vendors, dominating social domains from religion to local politics. These women honor their families' legacies through continuation of the inherited, high-status marketing trade. In Maya Market Women, S. Ashley Kistler describes how market women gain social standing as mediators of sometimes conflicting realities, harnessing the forces of global capitalism to revitalize Chamelco's indigenous identity. Working at the intersections of globalization, kinship, gender, and memory, Kistler presents a firsthand look at Maya markets as a domain in which the values of capitalism and indigenous communities meet"--
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies). --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. --- Kekchi Indians --- Women merchants --- Kekchi women --- Women, Kekchi --- Women --- Market women --- Businesswomen --- Merchants --- Cacchi Indians --- Cakchi Indians --- Qʾeqchiʾ Indians --- Quekchi Indians --- Indians of Central America --- Mayas --- Social life and customs. --- Economic conditions. --- Industries --- Social conditions. --- San Juan Chamelco (Guatemala) --- Chamelco (Guatemala)
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Global conservation efforts are celebrated for saving Guatemala's Maya Forest. This book reveals that the process of protecting lands has been one of racialized dispossession for the Indigenous peoples who live there. Through careful ethnography and archival research, Megan Ybarra shows how conservation efforts have turned Q'eqchi' Mayas into immigrants on their own land, and how this is part of a larger national effort to make Indigenous peoples into neoliberal citizens. Even as Q'eqchi's participate in conservation, Green Wars amplifies their call for material decolonization by recognizing the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the land itself.
Sociology of environment --- National wealth --- Guatemala --- Natural resources --- Decolonization --- Kekchi Indians --- Cacchi Indians --- Cakchi Indians --- Qʾeqchiʾ Indians --- Quekchi Indians --- Indians of Central America --- Mayas --- Sovereignty --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Colonization --- Postcolonialism --- National resources --- Resources, Natural --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Management. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Land tenure --- Economic aspects --- Maya Forest --- Qʼeqchiʼ (Community : North) --- Selva Maya --- Kekchí (Community : North) --- Qʼechqchiʼ (Community : North) --- Quekchí (Community : North) --- Conservation. --- Government relations --- History. --- academic. --- anthropology. --- archival research. --- biology. --- colonization. --- conservation. --- decolonization. --- dispossessed. --- ecological. --- ecology. --- environmentalism. --- environmentalist. --- ethnography. --- guatemala. --- immigrants. --- indigenous land. --- indigenous people. --- indigenous population. --- maya forest. --- mayan. --- migrants. --- natural world. --- nature. --- post colonial. --- protecting lands. --- public lands. --- qeqchi mayas. --- rainforest. --- scholarly.
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How are biological diversity, protected areas, indigenous knowledge and religious worldviews related? From an anthropological perspective, this book provides an introduction into the complex subject of conservation policies that cannot be addressed without recognising the encompassing relationship between discursive, political, economic, social and ecological facets. By facing these interdependencies across global, national and local dynamics, it draws on an ethnographic case study among Maya-Q'eqchi' communities living in the margins of protected areas in Guatemala. In documenting the cultural aspects of landscape, the study explores the coherence of diverse expressions of indigenous knowledge. It intends to remind of cultural values and beliefs closely tied to subsistence activities and ritual practices that define local perceptions of the natural environment. The basic idea is to illustrate that there are different ways of knowing and reasoning, seeing and endowing the world with meaning, which include visible material and invisible interpretative understandings. These tend to be underestimated issues in international debates and may provide an alternative approach upon which conservation initiatives responsive to the needs of the humans involved should be based on.
Landscape assessment --- Ethnology --- Protected areas --- Human ecology --- Kekchi Indians --- Traditional ecological knowledge --- Biodiversity conservation --- Biodiversity --- Biological diversity conservation --- Conservation of biodiversity --- Diversity conservation, Biological --- Gender mainstreaming in biodiversity conservation --- Maintenance of biological diversity --- Preservation of biological diversity --- Conservation of natural resources --- Ecosystem management --- Indigenous ecological knowledge --- Indigenous environmental knowledge --- T.E.K. (Traditional ecological knowledge) --- TEK (Traditional ecological knowledge) --- Traditional environmental knowledge --- Ethnoscience --- Experiential learning --- Biopiracy --- Ethnoecology --- Cacchi Indians --- Cakchi Indians --- Qʾeqchiʾ Indians --- Quekchi Indians --- Indians of Central America --- Mayas --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Lands, Preserved --- Lands, Protected --- Preserved lands --- Protected lands --- Reserves (Protected areas) --- Public lands --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Assessment, Landscape --- Environmental perception --- Landscape evaluation --- Landscape perception --- Perception, Landscape --- Land use --- Landscape protection --- Science --- Social aspects --- Conservation --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS --- Economic Conditions --- Kekchi Indians --- Culture and globalization --- Free trade --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Latin America --- Land tenure --- Migrations --- Economic conditions --- Land tenure. --- Migrations. --- Economic conditions. --- CAFTA (Free trade agreement) --- Guatemala --- Economic policy. --- Ethnic relations. --- Free trade and protection --- Trade, Free --- Trade liberalization --- Globalization and culture --- Cacchi Indians --- Cakchi Indians --- Qʾeqchiʾ Indians --- Quekchi Indians --- CAFTA-DR (Free trade agreement) --- Central America-Dominican Republic-United States Free Trade Agreement --- Central America Free Trade Agreement-Dominican Republic --- Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement --- DR-CAFTA (Free trade agreement) --- RD-CAFTA (Free trade agreement) --- TLC --- Tratado de Libre Comercio entre Centroamérica y los Estados Unidos --- Tratado de Libre Comercio entre República Dominicana, Centroamérica y los Estados Unidos --- U.S.- CAFTA-DR Free Trade Agreement --- United States-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement --- Gvatemala --- Goatemala --- Republic of Guatemala --- República de Guatemala --- Indians of Central America --- Mayas --- International trade --- Globalization --- Central America (Federal Republic) --- Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of environment
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