Enclosed: Conservation, Cattle, and Commerce Among the Q'eqchi' Maya Lowlanders

by Liza Grandia

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295991666
• ISBN13: 9780295991665
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher