Kneeling Before Corn: Recuperating More-Than-Human Intimacies on the Salvadoran Milpa

by Elena Salamanca, Elizabeth Hawkins, Mike Anastario

The cultivation of the three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) on subsistence farms in El Salvador is a multispecies, world-making, and ongoing process. Milpa describes a small subsistence corn farm. It is derived from the word milli ('field', or a piece of land under active cultivation) in Nahuatl. The milpa is a farming practice that uses perennial, intercropping, and swidden (fire and fallow) techniques that predates the Spanish conquest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816553378
• ISBN13: 9780816553372
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"