The Chicken and the Quetzal: Incommensurate Ontologies and Portable Values in Guatemala's Cloud Forest

by Paul Kockelman

Book Overview

In The Chicken and the Quetzal Paul Kockelman theorizes the creation, measurement, and capture of value by recounting the cultural history of a village in Guatemala's highland cloud forests and its relation to conservation movements and ecotourism. In 1990 a group of German ecologists founded an NGO to help preserve the habitat of the resplendent quetzal--the strikingly beautiful national bird of Guatemala--near the village of Chicacnab. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822360721
• ISBN13: 9780822360728
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"