Resilient Networks and and the Historical Ecology of Q'eqchi' Maya Swidden Agriculture

Despite the fact that swidden agriculture has been the subject of decades of research, questions remain about the extent to which it is constrained by demographic growth and if it can adapt to environmental limits. In this dissertation I analyze ethnographic and ethnohistorical evidence from the Tol...

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Main Author: Downey, Sean S.
Other Authors: Lansing, J. Stephen
Language:EN
Published: The University of Arizona. 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195686