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- Book Title
- The Maya Forest Garden: Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivatio
- Publication Date
- 2015-06-30
- Pages
- 260
- ISBN
- 9781611329988
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Routledge
ISBN-10
1611329981
ISBN-13
9781611329988
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208625501
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
260 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Maya Forest Garden : Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlands
Subject
Archaeology, Latin America / Pre-Columbian Era, Indigenous Studies, Anthropology / General
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, History
Series
New Frontiers in Historical Ecology Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
14.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2015-002902
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Thousands of years of cultural memory and empirical farming knowledge, as well as modern science and deep agroecology, are reflected in the incredibly diverse Maya milpa fields and forest gardens described in this book. In this epic transdisciplinary account of the intimate relationship between a people and its environment, historical agroecology comes alive, is shown to be living today, and holds the seeds of our future. Heed well the message this book contains!" --Steve Gliessman, "This engaging book will simultaneously expand scientific respect for indigenous ecological knowledge and become the keystone for advancing ecosystem conservation and sustainable agriculture in the Latin American tropics." --James D. Nations, National Parks Conservation Association, "Thousands of years of cultural memory and empirical farming knowledge, as well as modern science and deep agroecology, are reflected in the incredibly diverse Maya milpa fields and forest gardens described in this book. In this epic transdisciplinary account of the intimate relationship between a people and its environment, historical agroecology comes alive, is shown to be living today, and holds the seeds of our future. Heed well the message this book contains!" --Steve Gliessman, "Ford and Nigh confront the long-held belief that the unproductiveness of the lowland Maya region was the cause of the Maya collapse. They explain in clear language how this region has actually remained productive for the last four thousand years, with Maya farming strategies creating an environment in which 90 percent of the growth is useful for humans and core food crops are rotated across the landscape. Based on this historical ecological perspective, they posit that the Maya collapse was political, not environmental." --Christine Hastorf, University of California Berkeley, "This engaging book will simultaneously expand scientific respect for indigenous ecological knowledge and become the keystone for advancing ecosystem conservation and sustainable agriculture in the Latin American tropics." --James D. Nations, National Parks Conservation Association, "Ford and Nigh bring decades of field research to this book and draw on ethnography, agroecology, ethno- and paleobotany, archaeology, historical climate data, and ethnohistory. Even today, Maya forest gardeners cultivate sustainably but are threatened by Euro-informed models of agriculture that view tropical lowlands as suitable mainly for destructive pasturing. Scholars interested in tropical swiddeners and Mesoamericans in particular should read this discussion. Summing Up: Highly recommended." -A. E. Adams,Central Connecticut State University, CHOICE, "Ford and Nigh move Lowland Maya studies firmly into the light of a number of perspectives: historical ecology, adaptive cycles, ecology of the biota. Their binocular lensing of Maya forest gardens will long reside as a reference for linking not only Maya food producers to the landscapes of the Yucatan Peninsula, but also to the long-term, 8,000-year global cycles of environmental change. Among the benefits of their mix of archaeology, geography, climatology, ethnohistory, ethnography, and plant ecology is a clear linking of ancient and modern Maya populations, and thence onward into suggesting the future through the eyes of the past." --Joel Gunn, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, "The Maya and forests are entangled in a tenacious web of interdependent life. There would be no Maya without the forest, and the forest would be different without the Maya. The Maya Forest Garden is rooted in more than 30 years of archaeological, ethnological, and development fieldwork at El Pilar on the Guatemala-Belize border. It demonstrates how the Maya of the past transformed and managed the forest in such a way that it supported large populations, and it outlines how the Maya of today are living in a sustainable manner." --William E. Doolittle, University of Texas at Austin, "Ford and Nigh bring decades of field research to this book and draw on ethnography, agroecology, ethno- and paleobotany, archaeology, historical climate data, and ethnohistory. Even today, Maya forest gardeners cultivate sustainably but are threatened by Euro-informed models of agriculture that view tropical lowlands as suitable mainly for destructive pasturing. Scholars interested in tropical swiddeners and Mesoamericans in particular should read this discussion. Summing Up: Highly recommended." -A. E. Adams,Central Connecticut State University, CHOICE "The book is a timely multidisciplinary exploration of not only the rich historical ecology of the Maya forest garden, but also of Maya culture, history and knowledge - and the risk of loosing all of it. The value of explorations like the one offered by this study need to be -- for the future of any form of sustainable humanity and in my modest opinion -- continued." - Alessandro Questa, Anthropology Book Forun (American Anthropological Association) "An excellent contribution to the world literature on sustainable, indigenous land management. After rigorous paleo-botanical, archaeological and ecological research and on the ground consultation with existing practitioners, the authors conclude that the widely assumed cause of the collapse of the Mayan civilization due to deforestation and environmental degradation is not true... I'd recommend Ford and Nigh's book to anyone interested in permaculture and forest gardens." -Michael Pilarski, Friends Of The Trees Society "A groundbreaking new book co-authored by a UC Santa Barbara researcher... asserts the Maya not only survived their presumed apocalypse, they thrive today using farming techniques that are thousands of years old. The Maya Forest Garden: Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlandsby UCSB's Anabel Ford and Ronald Nigh demonstrates that the Maya milpa system is sustainable, sophisticated and highly productive." - Jim Logan, The UCSB Current "Ford's book, The Maya Forest Garden: Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlands, co-authored with Ronald Nigh, a professor at the Centro Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social in Chiapas, Mexico, published in June, is the result of 44 years of excavation and research into El Pilar's domestic architecture, gardens and traditional forest crops." - Joan Koerper, Inlandia Literary Journeys "We have been reading The Maya Forest Gardenby Anabel Ford and Ronald Nigh. It tells the tale of a civilization that weathered many climate changes, foreign conquests and failed attempts at cultural genocide. That civilization is still there today, after 8,000 years." -Albert Bates, Resilience "For years, archaeologist Anabel Ford has been arguing the case that the ancient Maya knew well how to manage their tropical forest environment to their advantage, eventually sustaining large populations even beyond the time when many archaeologists suggest the Maya declined and abandoned their iconic Classic period pyramidal and temple constructions and monumental inscriptions during the 8th and 9th centuries CE. She challenges the popular theories long held by many scholars that the Maya declined because of overpopulation and deforestation from increased agricultural production, perhaps aggravated by draught and climate change." -Popular Archaeology "In 2001, I traveled to the Belize-Guatemala border to report on UCSB archaeologist Anabel Ford's many discoveries at El Pilar, the Maya monument complex she uncovered in 1983. That's where she developed revolutionary theories that threatened to rock the academic world, namely that the Maya did not "disappear" due to an overpopulation cataclysm, but merely dwindled with time." - Matt Kettmann, Santa Barbara Independent , "Ford and Nigh bring decades of field research to this book and draw on ethnography, agroecology, ethno- and paleobotany, archaeology, historical climate data, and ethnohistory. Even today, Maya forest gardeners cultivate sustainably but are threatened by Euro-informed models of agriculture that view tropical lowlands as suitable mainly for destructive pasturing. Scholars interested in tropical swiddeners and Mesoamericans in particular should read this discussion. Summing Up: Highly recommended." -A. E. Adams,Central Connecticut State University, "Ford and Nigh confront the long-held belief that the unproductiveness of the lowland Maya region was the cause of the Maya collapse. They explain in clear language how this region has actually remained productive for the last four thousand years, with Maya farming strategies creating an environment in which 90 percent of the growth is useful for humans and core food crops are rotated across the landscape. Based on this historical ecological perspective, they posit that the Maya collapse was political, not environmental." --Christine Hastorf, University of California Berkeley, "Relying on a multifarious array of sources, from pollen fossil analysis, lake core samples and early Spanish chronicles to ethnographic and archaeological research data, Ford and Nigh -- a couple of renowned seasoned scholars on the Maya -- propose to look at the currently mega diverse tropical forests of Belize, Guatemala and Mexico as a human managed environment via cultural practices around food production, specifically controlled fire and felling of vegetation paired to polycrop agriculture." --Alessandro Questa, Anthropology Book Forum
Series Volume Number
6
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
972/.6
Table Of Content
Introduction: Chapter 1: The Context of the Maya Forest Chapter 2: Dwelling in the Maya Forest Chapter 3: Environmental Change and the Historical Ecology of the Maya Forest Chapter 4: Maya Land Use and Population in the Late Classic Period Chapter 5: Forested Landscape of the Ancient Maya Chapter 6: Maya Restoration Agriculture as Conservation for the 21st Century Appendix I: Native Cultigens Appendix II: Favored Trees References Index About the Authors
Synopsis
The conventional wisdom says that the devolution of Classic Maya civilization occurred because its population grew too large and dense to be supported by primitive neotropical farming methods, resulting in debilitating famines and internecine struggles. Using research on contemporary Maya farming techniques and important new archaeological research, Ford and Nigh refute this Malthusian explanation of events in ancient Central America and posit a radical alternative theory. The authors-show that ancient Maya farmers developed ingenious, sustainable woodland techniques to cultivate numerous food plants (including the staple maize);-examine both contemporary tropical farming techniques and the archaeological record (particularly regarding climate) to reach their conclusions;-make the argument that these ancient techniques, still in use today, can support significant populations over long periods of time., The conventional wisdom says that the devolution of Classic Maya civilization occurred because its population grew too large and dense to be supported by primitive neotropical farming methods, resulting in debilitating famines and internecine struggles. Using research on contemporary Maya farming techniques and important new archaeological research, Ford and Nigh refute this Malthusian explanation of events in ancient Central America and posit a radical alternative theory. The authors show that ancient Maya farmers developed ingenious, sustainable woodland techniques to cultivate numerous food plants (including the staple maize); examine both contemporary tropical farming techniques and the archaeological record (particularly regarding climate) to reach their conclusions; make the argument that these ancient techniques, still in use today, can support significant populations over long periods of time., Using studies on contemporary Maya farming techniques and important new archaeological research, the authors show that the ancient Maya were able to support, sustainably, a vast population by farming the forest--thus refuting the common notion that Maya civilization devolved due to overpopulation and famine.
LC Classification Number
F1435.3.A37F67 2015
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