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.
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Автор: Calder Robert Название: Hero for the Americas: Gonzalo Guerrero Among the Maya ISBN: 0889775095 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780889775091 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 4288.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A group of shipwrecked Spaniards washed onto the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in 1512, leading to first contact between the Spanish and the Maya. Two men survived the ordeal: Jeronimo de Aguilar, who became a translator for Hernan Cortes in his conquest of the Aztecs, and Gonzalo Guerrero, who, as legend has it, embraced the Mayan way of life and skillfully led the opposition to the Spanish take-over of the Yucatan. Reviled in 16th-century Spain as an apostate and a traitor, Guerrero is today remembered all over the Yucatan with statues and images, and as the symbolic father of millions of Mexican mestizos. But like Robin Hood and King Arthur, Guerreros story has become embellished by legend and myth. The product of fifteen years of research by a Governor Generals Award winner, A Hero for the Americas is the first comprehensive investigation of this controversial figure.
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