loppear's review of Zapotec Science : Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca

loppear reviewed Zapotec Science : Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca by Roberto J. Gonzalez

Roberto J. Gonzalez: Zapotec Science : Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca (2001)

detailed crop management practices, in a monograph argument about scientific validity

4 stars

Ethnographic report from working as a fieldhand in rural Oaxaca for subsistence food and small scale cash crops, and perspective on the community relationships that non-industrial production methods create that help contextualize and contradict a western agricultural critique of efficiency and productivity.