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Enclosed : conservation, cattle, and commerce among the Q'eqchi' Maya lowlanders / Liza Grandia.
- Title
- Enclosed : conservation, cattle, and commerce among the Q'eqchi' Maya lowlanders / Liza Grandia.
- Author
- Grandia, Liza.
- Publication
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2012.
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- Description
- xxix, 278 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Publisher 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.
- Series Statement
- Culture, place, and nature : studies in anthropology and environment
- Uniform Title
- Culture, place, and nature.
- Subject
- Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (2004 August 5)
- Kekchi Indians > Land tenure
- Kekchi Indians > Migrations
- Kekchi Indians > Economic conditions
- Culture and globalization > Guatemala
- Free trade > Guatemala
- Kekchi > Terres
- Kekchi > Migrations
- Kekchi > Conditions économiques
- Culture et mondialisation > Guatemala
- Libre-échange > Guatemala
- Culture and globalization
- Economic history
- Economic policy
- Ethnic relations
- Free trade
- Kekchi Indians > Economic conditions
- Kekchi Indians > Land tenure
- Kekchi
- Naturschutzgebiet
- Nutztierzucht
- Handel
- Landwirtschaft
- Konflikt
- Guatemala > Economic policy
- Guatemala > Economic conditions
- Guatemala > Ethnic relations
- Guatemala > Conditions économiques
- Guatemala
- Note
- "A Capell Family book."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: commons past -- Liberal plunder: a recurring Q'eqchi' history -- Maya Gringos: Q'eqchi' lowland migration and territorial expansion -- Commons, customs, and carrying capacities: the property and population traps of the Peten frontier -- Speculating: the world bank's market-assisted land reform -- From colonial to corporate capitalisms: expanding cattle frontiers -- The neoliberal auction: the PPP and the DR-CAFTA -- Conclusion: common futures.
- ISBN
- 9780295991658
- 0295991658
- 9780295991665
- 0295991666
- LCCN
- 2011034987
- OCLC
- 747713115
- SCSB-11876272
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library