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Altérités intimes, altérités éloignées : la greffe du multiculturalisme en Amérique latine [PDF]

, 1988
Siège des Nations unies, New York, 13 septembre 2007. L’assemblée générale des Nations unies émet une résolution par laquelle elle adopte une Déclaration sur les droits des peuples autochtones qui, sans définir ce qu’est un peuple autochtone et sans être
Lopez Caballero, Paula
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Friction in the field: Milpa, missionary, and scales of refusal in 1960s highland Guatemala

American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 2, Page 266-277, June 2025.
Abstract This article takes a scalar view of “friction” (Tsing 2005) and “refusal” (Ortner 1995) between ethnography and the archive. The concept of friction was originally formulated in the context of a globalizing world, but friction's perception and experience are highly local.
Mallory E. Matsumoto
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Letting Go of “Natural Kind”: Toward a Multidimensional Framework of Nonarbitrary Classification [PDF]

, 2018
This article uses the case study of ethnobiological classification to develop a positive and a negative thesis about the state of natural kind debates.
Ludwig, David
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Nitrogen losses mitigated with maize–legume intercropping in the Yucatan Peninsula

Agrosystems, Geosciences &Environment, Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2025.
Abstract In recent years, nitrate leaching and environmental impacts from agriculture have become global issues, due in part to the increased use of nitrogen (N) fertilizers in agriculture. In the Yucatan Peninsula, intercropping is a traditional farming practice known as the “Milpa” system (i.e., a traditional farming practice characterized by the ...
Jacques Fils Pierre, Carrie A. M. Laboski, Luis Latournerie‐Moreno, René Garruña, Krista L. Jacobsen, Esaú Ruiz‐Sánchez   +5 more
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Relevancia de los hechos del mundo en la modelización : la milpa como hecho paradigmático para la selección artificial [PDF]

, 2017
Proponemos la exploración de la milpa y su potencial para constituirse en hecho paradigmático del modelo selección artificial. La milpa como hecho del mundo cuenta con amplia relevancia social y cultural para los estudiantes de los pueblos indígenas de ...
García Franco, Alejandra, Gómez Galindo, Alma Adrianna, Koller Hernández, Marina   +2 more
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Milpa y capitalismo: opciones para los campesinos mayas yucatecos contemporáneos

Liminar: Estudios Sociales y Humanísticos, 2016
La mayoría de los mayas yucatecos contemporáneos vive en la pobreza. El eje de su economía y cultura es la agricultura de milpa, que los jóvenes no encuentran atractiva como opción económica.
Manuel Martín Castillo
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The Maya Are a People of Movement: Reconstructing Shifts in Maya Mobility From Oxygen Isotopes Across Three Millenia at Santa Rita Corozal (Chactemal), Northern Belize

American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 186, Issue 3, March 2025.
ABSTRACT Objectives Decades of archaeological and bioarchaeological research have demonstrated that ancient Maya cities underwent dynamic changes over time, including shifts in sociopolitical organization as well as their cultural and economic ties to other areas of Mesoamerica.
Angelina J. Locker, Diane Z. Chase, Arlen F. Chase, Adrian S. Z. Chase, Adela Pederson Vallejos, Genara Cano, Roy Rodriguez, To'one Masehualoon NGO, Melissa Badillo, Lilian J. Baker, Tiffiny A. Tung, Rick W. A. Smith   +11 more
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Combining Milpa and Push-Pull Technology for sustainable food production in smallholder agriculture. A review

Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2023
Achieving food security remains a pressing challenge for small-scale farmers, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Ongoing climate change, invasive noxious weeds, and crop pests further exacerbate the situation.

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The house is coming from inside the call

American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 1, Page 208-219, March 2025.
Abstract You are reading the first sentence of this essay. In fact, outside of this abstract and a brief introduction, there are only first sentences in this essay, all collected from anthropology monographs and articles. Anthropology is a promiscuous discipline, but there are only about half a dozen ways to begin an anthropology essay.
Lachlan Summers
wiley   +1 more source

Agroforestry systems of a Zapotec community in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca, Mexico

Botan‪ical Sciences, 2020
Background: Agroforestry systems have cultural, economic, social, and biodiversity conservation significance and are essential for the subsistence of communities.
Sunem Pascual-Mendoza, Gladys Isabel Manzanero-Medina, Alfredo Saynes-Vásquez, Marco Antonio Vásquez-Dávila   +3 more
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