Traditional Mexican agriculture : a basis for sustainable agroecological systems / Alba González Jácome.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

González Jácome, Alba, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Advances in agroecology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexico.

Sustainable agriculture--Mexico--History.

Sustainable agriculture.

Agricultural ecology--Mexico--History.

Agricultural ecology.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxi, 479 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 26 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Traditional Mexican Agriculture is the result of a holistic study of Mexican agriculture. It offers the reader a perspective of traditional agriculture in Mexico from social, cultural and ecological Anthropology, Ethnology, regional and environmental History, and Agroecology, to help obtain sustainable agroecology where human societies obtain better ways of life and a healthy and nutritious food system. The book further aims to recover ideas, management, and components of local knowledge of small-scale farmers"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction to Traditional Mexican Agriculture

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Presentation

1.3. Background: A Historical Brief

1.4. The Anthropological Point of View

1.5. Shifting the Focus on Agriculture Studies in Mexico

1.6. Maize Studies in Agronomy

1.7. Considerations and Conclusions

Recommended Reading

ch. 2 The Anthropological Concept of Traditional Agriculture

2.1. Introduction

2.2. The Anthropological Concept of Traditional Agriculture

2.3. Some Elements for the Conformation of the Concept

2.4. Mid-Twentieth Century Changes in Agriculture and the Third Stage of Agrarian Distribution

2.5. Great National Projects and Traditional Agriculture

2.6. Converting Traditional into Conventional Agriculture

2.7. Considerations and Conclusions

ch. 3 Studies Conforming Traditional Mexican Agriculture

3.1. Introduction

3.2. From 1960s to 1980s, and New Thoughts, and Approaches

3.3. From 1980 to Date

3.4. Elements That Make Up the Concept of Traditional Agriculture

3.5. The First Steps

3.6. What We Call Traditional also Changes

3.7. Cultural Traditions, Food Systems, and Traditional Agriculture

3.8. Considerations and Conclusions

ch. 4 Traditional Agriculture in Mexico (First Part)

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Classifications and Types of Traditional Mexican Agriculture

4.3. Chronology, Traditional Knowledge, and Environment in Traditional Agroecosystems

4.4. Traditional Mexican Agroecosystems

4.5. Traditional Agriculture in Regions Lacking Water

4.6. Traditional Agriculture in Regions with Water Excess

4.7. Local and Regional Development Projects

4.8. Water, Traditional Agriculture, Government Development Projects

4.9. Relevance of Irrigation Studies to Traditional Agriculture

4.10. Considerations and Conclusions

ch. 5 Traditional Agriculture in Mexico (Second Part)

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Basic Aspects, Approaches, and Perspectives

5.3. Elements to Consider

5.4. Modernization, Urban Expansion, and Human Population

5.5. Agriculture and Health

5.6. Traditional Agriculture, Agrodiversity, and Markets

5.7. Traditional Agriculture and Diversity

5.8. Pests and Diseases in Ancient Agriculture

5.9. Agricultural Crises, Climate, and Disasters

5.10. Droughts, Deforestation, Climatological Events, and Volcanism

5.11. Recreation of Traditional Agroecosystems

5.12. Maize and the Emergence of Traditional Agriculture

5.13. Considerations and Conclusions

ch. 6 How Traditional Agriculture Has Been Studied

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Centers of Agricultural Origin

6.3. Characteristics and Components of Traditional Mexican Agriculture

6.4. Diversity and the Combination of Components in Traditional Agriculture

6.5. Small-Scale Farmers and Solidarity

6.6. Traditional Agriculture: Diversity, Agrodiversity, and Cultural Diversity

6.7. Recent Discussions on Agrodiversity

6.8. Prejudices and Traditional Agriculture

6.9. External Elements to Consider

6.10. Considerations and Conclusions

ch. 7 Studies of the Origins of Agriculture in Mexico

7.1. Introduction

7.2. Background

7.3. Vegetative Agriculture and Grain Agriculture

7.4. Mesoamerica, and the First Plants Domesticated

7.5. Domesticated Maize Diffusion in Mesoamerica

7.6. The Middle Basin of the Balsas River

7.7. Archaeological and Genomic Evidence

7.8. Domesticated Maize in Tropical Regions: Veracruz, Tabasco, Chiapas, and Honduras

7.9. Diffusion and Dispersion of Domesticated Maize

7.10. The Central Valleys of Oaxaca

7.11. The Tehuacan Valley

7.12. Maize Domestication in Tehuacan: According to the Genomics Studies (2009

2016)

7.13. Mesoamerican: Some Archaeological Remnants of Flora Evidencing Usage and Early Human Consumption

7.14. Considerations and Conclusions

ch. 8 Domesticated Maize Dispersion

8.1. Introduction

8.2. Background

8.3. Routes to Southern Mesoamerica

8.4. Routes to Northern Mexico and Southern USA

8.5. Journey of Maize Outside the American Continent

8.6. Changes in the Cornfield and Food System

8.7. Cornfield Changes Outside Mexico

8.8. Pre-Hispanic Plants and Uses That Were Modified: The Conformation of the Mexican Model of Agriculture

8.8.1. Vines

8.8.2. Agave

8.9. Emergence of Traditional Mexican Agriculture

8.10. Considerations and Conclusions

ch. 9 History and Discussions about Homegarden in Mexico

9.1. Introduction

9.2. Brief Historical Background

9.3. Homegarden Agroecosystem: Its Antiquity

9.4. Forest and the Homegarden as Hunting Places in Los Tuxtlas

9.5. Homegardens in the Tehuacan Valley

9.6. The Incidental Homegarden/Cornfield in the Tehuacan Valley

9.7. Emergence of the Mexican Homegarden, Orchard, and Gardens in the Sixteenth Century

9.8. Considerations and Conclusions

ch. 10 The Central Highlands and the Homegarden

10.1. Introduction

10.2. The Nahua Homegarden. Orchards, and Gardens in the Sixteenth Century

10.3. The Novo-Hispanic Homegarden and Its Conformation

10.3.1. The Format ion of the Novo-Hispanic Homegarden

10.4. New Spain Types of Homegarden

10.5. Flower Gardens: In the Pre-Hispanic Time

10.6. Forests. Homegardens, and Gardens

10.7. The Indigenous Homegarden in Viceroyalty

10.8. Considerations and Conclusions

ch. 11 The Ancient Mayan Homegarden and Its Transformations

11.1. Introduction

11.2. Background

11.3. The Homegarden and the Mayan Solar in Yucatan

11.4. The Homegarden and the Cornfield

11.5. The Mayan-Yucatecan Homegarden

11.6. The Ancient Maya-Yucatecan Homegarden

11.7. Domestic Fauna Cited in the Yucatan Relations

11.8. Working Tools and Changes after 1524

11.9. Changes in Homegarden and Cornfield Vegetation

11.10. Considerations and Conclusions

ch. 12 History and Discussions about the Homegarden

12.1. Introduction

12.2. Background

12.3. Forest and the Homegarden as Hunting Places

12.4. Management of Domestic and Wild Fauna

12.5. Wild and Tolerated Edible Green Weeds in Homegardens

12.6. Is the Homegarden a Sustainable System?

12.7. Hunter-Gathered Bands, Their Sedentary Process, and Changes in the Food System

12.8. Deforestation and Ecological History

12.9. Homegarden Plant Diffusion and Domestication

12.10. Considerations and Conclusions

ch. 13 History, Changes, and Diversity of the Homegarden

13.1. Introduction

13.2. Background

13.3. The Sixteenth-Century Homegarden

13.4. The Homegarden and Its Changes

13.5. Diversity and Change

13.6. Kitchens, the Homegarden, and Open Spaces

13.7. Considerations and Conclusions

ch. 14 The Current Mexican Homegarden

14.1. Introduction

14.2. Changes in the Homegarden

14.3. Current Situation of Some Homegardens in Mexico

14.4. Homegarden Diversity

14.5. Homegardens and Orchards for Commercial Purposes

14.6. Considerations and Conclusions

ch. 15 The Cornfield (milpa) in Mexico and the Food System

15.1. Introduction

15.2. What Is a Cornfield?

15.3. How the Cornfield Has Been Defined

15.4. Characteristics of Some Cornfields in Mexico

15.5. Emergence of the First Cornfields (milpa) in Mexico

15.6. The Cornfield in the Central Highlands in 1519

15.7. The Cornfield and Catastrophic Climatological Events, Epidemics, Diseases, and Famines

15.8. Old World Plants. Famines, and the Cornfield in New Spain

15.9. Changing the Native Production Systems

15.10. Considerations and Conclusions

ch.

16 The Cornfield Evolution in Mexico

16.1. Introduction

16.2. Background

16.3. Early Mesoamerican Cornfields

16.4. The Cornfield in the Sixteenth Century and the Plants That Arrived from Spain

16.5. The Nineteenth-Century Cornfield

16.6. Marketing and Change in Agroecosystems: Agave and Pulque

16.7. The Cornfield: From the End of the Nineteenth to the First Quarter of the Twenty-First Century

16.8. Considerations and Conclusions

Recommended Readings

ch. 17 Some Types of Cornfield in Contemporary Mexico

17.1. Introduction

17.2. Background

17.3. The Itinerant Cornfield in the Totonacapan

17.4. Marsh Agriculture: The Cornfield and March Maize (Marceno) in the Wetlands

17.5. El Palmar in Central Veracruz: The Cornfield and the Orchard

17.6. St. Isabel Xiloxoxtla, Tlaxcala: Combining Seasonal and Irrigated Cornfields

17.7. Traditional Agriculture and Industry

17.8. Agricultural Cycle

17.9. Small-Scale Irrigation in Traditional Agriculture

17.10. Commercial Agriculture

17.11. Traditional Agriculture and Migration

17.12. Daily Life and Cornfield Small-Scale Farmers

17.13. Steep Places and the Seasonal Cornfield: The Tlacolol (e), the Huamil, the Coamil, and Ecuaro

17.14. Los Tuxtlas, Southern Veracruz: The Zoque-Popoluca Cornfield

17.15. St. Cruz Yagavila, Oaxaca, and the Altitude Cornfield Management, and Seed Selection

17.16. Considerations and Conclusions

Contents note continued: Recommended Reading

ch. 18 The Cornfield and the Food System

18.1. Introduction

18.2. Background

18.3. The Cornfield and the Food System in Its Early Stages

18.4. The Central Valleys of Oaxaca: Food System

18.5. The Tehuacan Valley Food System

18.6. Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz: Food System

18.7. Traveling South: the Food System in Southern Mesoamerica

18.8. The Basin of Mexico: Food System

18.9. The Tlatelolco Market (1536

1577) and the Food System

18.10. The Cornfield and the Nineteenth-Century Food System

18.11. The Contemporary Mexican Food System and the Cornfield

18.12. The Cornfield, Edible Green Weeds, and the Food System

18.13. The Mexican Cornfield and the Food System Today

18.14. Considerations and Conclusions

ch. 19 Diversity, History, and Geography of Maize in Mexico

19.1. Introduction

19.2. Background

19.3. Some Changes in Agroecosystems and Weeds

19.4. Maize Travelled the World

19.5. Some Current Uses of Maize

19.6. Cultivated Maize for Forage

19.7. The Current Context of Maize in Mexico: Some Figures

19.8. Tolerated Edible Green Weeds in the Cornfield Agroecosystem

19.9. Considerations and Conclusions

ch. 20 Soil, Water, and Erosion in Traditional Agricultural Systems

20.1. Introduction

20.2. Background

20.3. The Maya Lowlands

20.4. Soils in the Slash and Burn Cornfield and the Homegarden

20.5. Archaeological Evidence

20.6. Viceroyalty and Expansion toward the Hills: The Soil Erosion

20.7. Mexican Agave Fermented Mead Estate (Hacienda Pulquera), and Soil Erosion Control

20.8. Management of Erosion in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley

20.9. Discussion on the Productivity and Knowledge of Soil in Mesoamerica

20.10. Soil Improvement in the Pre-Hispanic Era

20.11. Elements in the History of Soil in Mexico

20.12. Considerations and Conclusions

ch. 21 Nature, Ideology, and Culture in Small-Scale Farmer Societies

21.1. Introduction

21.2. Background

21.3. Ideology. Cosmology, and Worldview in Traditional Agriculture

21.4. Ceremonies, Myths, Rites, and Beliefs Concerning Traditional Agriculture

21.5. Maize and the Worldview of Small-Scale Farmers

21.6. Natural Resources, Special Foods, Characters, Agricultural Festivals, and Celebrations 1980

2020

21.7. Xopilapa, Veracruz Central, and Conservation of the Environment

21.8. Los Tuxtlas in Southern Veracruz: Homshuk, Maize, and Seed Selection

21.9. El Naranjal, Quintana Roo, and Aid Against Hurricanes

21.10. St. Marta Chenalo, and the Gods of the Hills in the Highlands of Chiapas

21.11. The Matlalcueye, or Malinche Volcano Western Slopes

21.12. The Xinantecatl Volcano in the Toluca Valley in the State of Mexico

21.13. Considerations and Conclusions

ch. 22 Some Final Considerations and Conclusions

22.1. Introduction

22.2. Background

22.3. Small-Scale Traditional Agricultural Societies: Foreign Impacts

22.4. Small-Scale Farmer Societies, Culture, and Agriculture

22.5. Relations with Other Disciplines

22.6. Some Reasons Why Traditional Agriculture Is Important

Recommended Reading.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Jácome, Alba González, Traditional mexican agriculture

ISBN:

9780367462192

0367462192

9781032057149

1032057149

OCLC:

1240414769

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99990679954