Culture & Agriculture
A Publication of the Culture and Agriculture Section
American Anthropological Association
Volume 29, No. 1 (Spring 2007)
ARTICLES
The House of Guzmán:
An Indigenous Cacicazgo in Early Colonial Central Mexico
Stephen M. Perkins
SPECIAL SECTION: PEER COMMUNITIES ON MICHAEL CERNEA'S "STUDYING THE CULTURE OF AGRICULTURE: THE UPHILL BATTLE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH IN CGIAR"
Cernea's Thesis: A Perspective from the
South
Mina Swaminathan
Culture in Agriculture versus Capital in
Agriculture: A Response to the Crisis of Social Science Research in CGIAR
Jude L. Fernando
BOOK REVIEW ESSAY
A History of Plants and Peoples in the New
World
Stephen M. Perkins
BOOK REVIEWS
Household Decisions, Gender, and
Development: A Synthesis of Recent Research
(Agnes R. Quisumbing, ed.)
Reviewed by Miriam S. Chaiken
Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World
(Julian Agyeman, Robert D. Bullard, and Bob Evans, eds.)
Reviewed by Nicole M. Smith
Landscape, Memory and History:
Anthropological Perspectives
(Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew Strathern, eds.)
Reviewed by Christian Isendahl
Regional Culture and Economic
Development: Explorations in European Ethnology
(Ullrich Kockel)
Reviewed by Jan Anderson-Muir
Global Biopiracy: Patents, Plants, and
Indigenous Knowledge
(Ikechi Mgbeoji)
Reviewed by Dion Dennis
Volume 28, No. 2 (Fall 2006)
ARTICLES
The Economic Culture of U.S. Agricultural
Cooperatives
Julie A. Hogeland
The "Art of Farming:" Exploring the Link
between Farm Culture and Maryland's Nutrient Management Policies
R. Shawn Maloney and Michael Paolisso
The "Authentic" Taco and Peasant Women:
Nostalgic Consumption in the Era of Globalization
Ivonne Vizcarra Bordi
Traditional and Posttraditional: A Study of
Agricultural Rituals in Relation to Technological Complexity among Rice
Producers in Two Zones of West Bengal, India
Arindam Samaddar
Ethnobotanical Evidence for Cultivar
Selection among the Tukanoans: Manioc (Manihot esculenta Crantz) in
the Northwest Amazaon
Warren M. Wilson and Darna L. Dufour
BOOK REVIEWS
The Hot and the Cold: Ills of Humans and
Maize in Native Mexico
(Jacques M. Chevalier and Andrés Sánchez Bain)
Reviewed by Aaron M. Lampman
Power, Community, and the State: The
Political Anthropology of Organization in Mexico
(Monique Nuijten)
Reviewed by Kedron Thomas
Nature by Design: People, Natural Process
and Ecological Restoration
(Eric Higgs)
Reviewed by Alison E. Doyle
Chicken: The Dangerous Transformation of
America's Favorite Food
(Steve Striffler)
Reviewed by Lauren E. Gulbas
Troubled Fields: Men, Emotions, and the
Crisis in American Farming
(Eric Ramírez-Ferrero)
Reviewed by Peter Benson
Discerning
Palates of the Past: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Crop Cultivation and
Plant Usage in India
(Seetha Ndarahari Reddy)
Reviewed by Stephen B. Shaw
Volume 28, No.1 (Spring 2006)
ARTICLES
"Feeding the Nation" and "Protecting the
Watershed": Forces and Ideas Influencing Production Strategies in a
Brazilian Agricultural Community
Susan Paulson and Jonathan DeVore
"This Little Piggy Went to Market; This
Little Piggy Stayed Home": Contacts and Live-Hog Markets in Illinois,
1993-2000
Ronald Rich
SPECIAL SECTION: PEER COMMUNITIES ON MICHAEL CERNEA'S "STUDYING THE CULTURE OF AGRICULTURE: THE UPHILL BATTLE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH IN CGIAR"
Cernea Comment
Stephen B. Brush
What Kind of Social Science Does the CGIAR,
and the World, Need?
David A. Cleveland
Michael Cernea's Excerpt: What It Means for
Us
Murray J. Leaf
Comments on Cernea: "Keeping Agriculture in
Anthropology"
William Loker
Response to Micheal Cernea
Lois Stanford
Agriculture IN Culture
Kendall Thu
Keeping People in Culture and Agriculture
Ben J. Wallace
BOOK REVIEW ESSAY
Living in a Physical World: Cataloging
Natural Disasters in Mexico
Richardson B. Gill
Volume 27, No.2 (Fall 2005)
ARTICLES
Keeping Culture in Agriculture: A Call for Discussion
James H. McDonald
Studying
the Culture of Agri-culture: The Uphill Battle for Social Research in CGIAR
Michael M. Cernea
Special Section:
Civic Agriculture
Guest Editors’ Introduction
Laura B. DeLind and Jim Bingen
Civic Agriculture and Community Problem Solving
Thomas A. Lyson
Civic Agriculture: Does Public Space Require Public Ownership?
Kimberly Chung, Robert J. Kirkby, Chet Kendell, and Jo Ann Beckwith
Civic
Engagement on University Research Farms
Kimberly Chung and Sherill Baldwin
A
Season for Seeds: Notes from a Schoolyard Garden
Laurie Thorp
Laura B. DeLind and Jim Bingen
Volume 27, No.1 (Spring 2005)
ARTICLES
Sustaining El Niño-Induced Scallop Booms with Aquaculture: Livelihood Transitions of Artisanal Fishing People in the Paracas National Reserve, Peru
Sarah
Keene Meltzoff, Michael Lemons, Lila Asfour, Gleyts Guardia-Montoya, and
Ricardo
Gonzales
Corporate
Community or Corporate Houses?: Land and Society in a Colonial Mesoamerican
Community
Stephen M. Perkins
Agricultural
Development NGOs, Anthropology, and the Encounter with Cultural Knowledge
Chris
J. Shepherd
Douglas
H. Constance and Reny Tuinstra
Steve Butts, Alan McGeorge, and Jenny Briedenhann
BOOK REVIEW
Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat and Poultry Industry in North America
(Donald D. Stull and Michael J. Broadway)
Reviewed by David Kozak
Volume 26, No. 1-2 (2004)
ARTICLES
Agriculture Intensification, Economic Identity, and Shared Invisibility
in Amazonian Peasantry: Caboclos and Colonists in Comparative Perspective
Eduardo S. Brondizio
Challenges to Farmworker Organizing in the South: From the Southern Tenant
Farmers Union to the Farm Labor Organizing Committee’s Mt. Olive Campaign
David Griffith
Clandestine Artisans or Integrated Producers?: Standardization of Rural Livelihood
in the Norte Chico, Chile
William L.
Alexander
SPECIAL SECTION: LIVING WITH LIVESTOCK
Guest Editor’s Comments: Living with Livestock: Contentments and Contentions
Lisa Markowitz and Valerie Wheeler
Livestock and Livelihoods: Who Wins and Who Loses?
Constance
M. McCorkle
Neoliberalism Meets Pre-Columbian Tradition: Campesino Communities
and Vicuña Management in Andean Peru
Catherine Sahley, Jorge Torres, and Jesús Sanchez
Andean Livelihood Strategies and the Livestock Portfolio
Corinne Valdivia
Social Consequences of Intensive Swine Production: Some Effects of Community
Conflict
Laura B. DeLind
“Access to Pasture” and Other Amenities: National Organic Standards
Valerie Wheeler and Peter Esainko
Navajo-Churro Sheep Come Home to the Navajo Nation
Donald E. Bixby
SPECIAL SECTION: ANTHROPOLOGY AND AGRICULTURE IN THE WESTERN WORLD
Guest Editor’s Comments: Anthropology and Agriculture in the
Western World
Heather McIvlain-Newsad
Losing Ground: Challenges to Mountain Agriculture in Switzerland
Ellen Wiegandt
Preserving the Farm in Southern Germany
Francesca Merlan
Global Trade Liberalization, the State, and Farming Traditions: A Case
Study from Far North Queensland, Australia
Jan Anderson
Direct from Farm to Table: Community Supported Agriculture in Western Illinois
Heather McIlvain-Newsad, Christopher D. Merrett, and Patrick McLaughlin
BOOK REVIEW ESSAY
Wine, Ethnography, and French History
Kolleen M. Guy
BOOK REVIEW
Agrarian Socialism in America: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside,
1904-1920
(Jim Bissett)
Reviewed by Jeff Kolnick
Vol. 25, No. 2 (Fall 2003)
ARTICLES
Agriculture Intensification, Economic Identity, and Shared Invisibility in
Amazonian Peasantry: Caboclos and Colonists in Comparative Perspective
Eduardo S. Brondizio
Coping with Trade Liberalization: The Case of Mexican Grain Producers
Flavia Echánove and Cristina Steffen
Intimate Knowledge of the Environment and the Production of Livelihood:
An Example from the Ethiopian Highlands
Tesfaye Wolde-Medhin
Rigidity Versus Adaptation: Contribution to the Debate
on Agricultural Viability and Forest Sustainability in Southern Cameroon
Phil René Oyono, William A. Mala, and Jean Tonyé
Who Maintains
Crop Genetic Diversity and How: Implications for On-farm Conservation and
Utilization
A. Subedi, P. Chaudhary, B. K. Baniya, R. B. Rana, R. K. Tiwari, D. K. Rijal,
B. R. Sthapit, and D. I. Jarvis
BOOK REVIEW ESSAYS
Alternative Logics in Action: Water Management in the Andes
Symantha A. Holben
Water, Atmosphere, and Environmental Governance: a Comprehensive Perspective
Enzo Ferrara
BOOK REVIEWS
The Entangling Net: Alaska’s Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their
Lives
(Leslie Leyland Fields)
Reviewed by Sarah J. Olson
Kill and Chill: Restructuring Canada’s Beef
Commodity Chain
(Ian McLachlan)
Reviewed by Monica Castellano
The Agricultural Revolution of the 20th Century
(Don Paarlberg and Philip Paarlberg)
Reviewed by Philip E. Shuler
Vol. 25, No. 1 (Summer 2003)
ARTICLES
Social Capital and Poverty: Lessons from Case Studies in Mexico and Central
America
Margarita Flores and Fernando Rello
Whither Peasants in Siberia?: Agricultural
Reform, Subsistence, and Being Rural
Katherine R. Metzo
Uncle Sam Versus the Peekytoe Crab: Post Mortem on a Rural
Protest
Susan H. Lees and Emily Orr
Flowers of Water: Home Gardens and Gender Roles
in a Caboclo Community in the Lower Amazon, Brazil
Rui Sérgio Sereni Murrieta and Antoinette M. G. A. WinklerPrins
BOOK REVIEWS
Genescapes: The Ecology of Genetic Engineering
(Nottingham)
Reviewed by Dion Dennis
The Changing Chicken: Chooks, Cooks, and Culinary Culture
(Dixon)
Reviewed by Lauren Gulbas
From Farm to Table: Making the Connection in the Mid-Atlantic
Food System
(Hora and Tick)
Reviewed by Susan L. Andreatta
Which Way Forward? People, Forests, and Policymaking
in Indonesia
(Pierce Colfer and Resosudarmo, eds.)
Reviewed by Reed L. Wadley
The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South
African Sharecropper, 1894-1985
(Onselen)
Reviewed by Paul C. Rosenblatt and Busisiwe Catherine Nkosi
Vol. 24, No. 2 (Fall 2002)
ARTICLES
Social and Economic Contradictions of Rural Migrant
Contract Labor between Tlaxcala, Mexico and Canada.
Leigh Binford
Soils Utilized for Gardens by Tuanoans in Northwestern Amazonia
and their Impact on Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) Cultivar Selection
Warren Wilson
Title and Paper Forthcoming
Karen Stothert
Community Supported Agriculture in Central Pennsylvania
E. Paul Durrenberger
Farm Family Adaptability and Climate Variability in the
Northern Great Plains
Tori L. Jennings
BOOK REVIEWS
Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representation, and Rule in India
(Arun Agrawal and K. Sivaramakrishnan, eds.)
Reviewed by Anne Hardgrove
We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of
Americans
(Donna R. Gabaccia)
Reviewed by Susan L. Andreatta
From the Ground Up: Rethinking Industrial Agriculture
(Helena Norberg-Hodge, Peter Groeing, and John Page)
Reviewed by Valerie Imbruce
Biodiversity in Native America
(Paul E. Minnis and Wayne J. Elisens, eds.)
Reviewed by Patti Wright
Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in
The Gambia
(Richard A. Schoeder)
Reviewed by Orit Tamir
Gender and Agricultural Development: Surveying the Field
(Helen Kreider Henderson)
Reviewed by Heather McIlvain-Newsad
Vol. 24, No. 1 (Summer 2002)
ARTICLES
Gender
and Agricultural Imagery: Pesticide Advertisements in the 21st Century
Agricultural Transition
Margaret Kroma
Community
Supported Agriculture, Food Consumption Patterns, and Member Commitment
Carol Goland
Coping
with Crisis: Smoke, Drought, Flood and Currency: Iban Households in West
Kalimantan, Indonesia
Reed L. Wadley
Participatory
Research: A Set of Tools But Not the Key to the Universe
Brian G. Sims and Jeffery W. Bentley
Who
is Interested in Commercial Agriculture?: Subsistence Agriculture and Salaried
Work in the City Among Yucatec Maya from the State of Yucatán
Fransisco D. Gurri and Emilio F. Moran
BOOK REVIEWS
To
Defend Our Water with the Blood of Our Veins: The Struggle for Resources
in Colonial Puebla
(Sonya Lipsett-Rivera)
Reviewed by Stephen M. Perkins
Bridging Human and Ecological Landscapes: Participatory Research
and Sustainable Development in an Andean Frontier
(Robert E. Rhoades)
Reviewed by Paul H. Gelles
The Land that Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First
Century
(William A. Shutkin)
Reviewed by Benjamin H. Johnson
Redesigning Life? The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering
(Brian Tokar, ed.)
Reviewed by Jan Anderson
Waiting for Rain: Agriculture and Ecological Imbalance in Cape Verde
(Mark Langworthy and Timothy J. Finan)
Reviewed by Enzo Ferrara
Vol. 23, No. 3 (Fall 2001)
ARTICLES
Gender
and Commercial Agriculture in Ecuador and Guatemala
Sarah Hamilton, Linda Asturias de Barrios, and Brenda Tevalán
Working
Under Contract for the Vegetable Agroindustry in Mexico: A Means of Survival
Flavia Echánove Huacuja
Valuing
Diversity: The Role of Seed Savers in In Situ Crop Plant Conservation
Michael K. Steinberg
BOOK REVIEWS
The
Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in Latin America
(Michael Painter and William H. Durham, eds.)
Reviewed by Kristoffer E. Alstatt
The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalized Economy
(Veronica Bennholdt-Thomsen and Maria Mies, eds.)
Reviewed by K. Ravi Srinivas
Vol. 23, No. 2 (Summer 2001)
ARTICLES
Globalization,
Fordism, and Post-Fordism in Agriculture and Food: A Critical Review of
the Literature
Alessandro Bonanno and Douglas H. Constance
Beer
Brewing and Consumption in the Maintenance of African Identity by the Enslaved
People of the Bahamas, 1783ö1834
Paul Farnsworth
Doing
Business Without Development Anthropology: The Consequences of Non-collaboration
in Baja California
Allen Jedlicka and Barbara Bonnekessen
BOOK REVIEWS
Preserving
the Family Farm: Women, Community, and the Foundation of Agribusiness in
the Midwest, 1900ö1940
(Mary C. Neth)
Reviewed by Jan Anderson
The Coca Boom and Rural Social Change in Bolivia
(Harry Sanabria)
Reviewed by Michael K. Steinberg
Vol. 23, No. 1 (Spring 2001)
ARTICLES
Agriculture,
the Environment, and Sources of State Ideology and Power
Kendall M. Thu
NGOs,
Local Government, and Agrarian Civil Society: A Case of Evolving Collaboration
from Southern Peru
Lisa Markowitz
Perceptions
of the Economy int he Context of Non-traditional Agricultural Exports in
the Central Highlands of Guatemala
Liliana R. Goldín and Linda Asturias de Barrios
BOOK REVIEW
The
Human Relationship with Nature: Development and Culture
(Peter H. Kahn)
Reviewed by Thomas R. Coyle
Vol. 22, No. 3 (Winter 2000)
ARTICLES
Food
Scarcity, Rural Poverty, and Agricultural Development in Latin America:
Issues and Evidence
Charles S. Spencer
Bajo
Communities: A Case Study from the Central Peten
Julie L. Kunen, T. Patrick Culbert, Vilma Fialko, Brian R. McKee, and
Liwy Grazioso
Farmer
Morality and Marylands Nutrient Management Regulations
Michaeol Paolisso and R. Shawn Maloney
Marketing
Strategies and Challenges of Small-Scale Organic Producers in Central North
Carolina
Susan L. Andreatta
BOOK REVIEWS
Food
Security and Nutrition: The Global Challenge
(Uwe Kracht and Manfred Schultz, eds.)
Reviewed by K. Ravi Srinivas
Vol. 22, No. 2 (Summer 2000)
ARTICLES
The
Hard and the Soft: Work Experience and the Understanding of Agricultural
Intensification in Campo Alegre
Nicholas Shorr
Ecological
Agriculture: Situating the Garden in the Study of Agriculture
R. Michael O'Flaherty
RESEARCH REPORTS
Raised
Field Abandonment in the Upper Amazon
John H. Walker
Counting and Measuring the Trees
Ben J. Wallace
BOOK REVIEWS
The
Origins of Agriculture in the Lowland Neotropics
(Dolores R. Piperno and Deborah M. Pearsall)
Reviewed by Karen E. Stothert
The Meat Business: Devouring a Hungry Planet
(Geoff Tansey and Joyce D'Silva, eds.)
Reviewed by David L. Kozak
Vol. 22, No. 1 (Spring 2000)
ARTICLES
Forest
Developers, Forest Protectors: Commercial Agroforestry by the Chiripá
of Paraguay
Richard Reed
Human
- Peyote Interaction in South Texas
Servando Z. Hinojosa
The
Relationship of Land Tenure to Agricultural Practices and the Environment
in El Salvador
Samuel McReynolds, Thomas Johnston, and Charles Geisler
BOOK REVIEWS
River
of Promise, River of Peril: The Politics of Managing the Missouri River
(John E. Thorsen)
Reviewed by David L. Kozak
Choctaws at the Crossroads: The Political Economy of Class and Culture
in the Oklahoma Timber Region
(Sandra Faiman-Silva)
Reviewed by Daniel J. Gelo
Community, State, and Market on the North Atlantic Rim: Challenges
to Modernity in the Fisheries
(Richard Apostle, Gene Barrett, Petter Holm, Svein Jentoft, Leigh Mazany,
Bonnie McCay, and Knut Mikalsen)
Reviewed by E. Paul Durrenberger
Vol. 21, No. 3 (Winter 1999)
Anthropology and Environmental Advocacy: A special collaborative issue with the Anthropology and Environment Section of the AAA edited by Priscilla Weeks and Sarah Keene Meltzoff
ARTICLES
Anthropology
and Environmental Advocacy
Priscilla Weeks
Against
the Flow: Activism and Advocacy in the Reform of Zimbabweâs Water Sector
Bill Derman and Anne Ferguson
Miskito
Ethnic Struggle Over Land and Lobster: Conserving Culture and Resources
on Corn Island
Sarah Keene Meltzoff and Jennifer Schull
Cyber-activism:
World Wildlife Fund's Campaign to Save the Tiger
Priscilla Weeks
Fishing
in the Media: Mainstream Print News and the Commercial Fishing Industry
in Texas
Kathleen M. Sullivan
Anthropology
as Missing Link: Representing and Advocating for Nature in Natural History
Museums
Alaka Wali
RESEARCH REPORT
Toxic
Algal Blooms, Nutrient Runoff, and Farming on Marylandâs Eastern Shore
Michael Paolisso
BOOK REVIEW ESSAY
Reevaluating
Political Constructs of Ecology and Sustainability
Heide Castañeda
Vol. 21, No. 2 (Summer 1999)
ARTICLES
Alternative
Knowledges, Organic Agriculture, and the Biotechnology Debate
Kristen Lyons and Geoffrey Lawrence
Shrimp
Aquaculture, Coastal Communities, and Competing Stakeholders: Applying
Cultural
Models
to Coastal Zone Management
D. Robert Cooley
Participative
Strategic Planning for Sustainable Community Forestry in Chihuahua, Mexico
Concepción Luján Alvarez, Joel A. Diemer, and M. Lois
Stanford
BOOK REVIEWS
Envisioning
Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis
(Eric R. Wolf)
Reviewed by John K. Chance
Tobacco Culture: Farming Kentuckyâs Burley Belt
(John van Willigen and Susan C. Eastwood)
Reviewed by Thomas A. Arcury
Hungry for Hope: On the Cultural and Communicative Dimensions of
Development in Highland
Ecuador
(Carmen G. Hess)
Reviewed by Kathryn Coe
Political Ecology, Mountain Agriculture and Knowledge in Honduras
(Kees Jansen)
Reviewed by William M. Loker
The Political Ecology of Bananas: Contract Farming, Peasants and
Agrarian Change in the
Eastern Caribbean
(Lawrence S. Grossman)
Reviewed by Susan L. Andreatta
Siberia, Siberia
(Valentin Rasputin)
Reviewed by Carol B. Stevens
Vol. 21, No. 1 (Spring 1999)
ARTICLES
Global
Visions and Local Lives: Policy, Participation, and Coastal Management
in Ecuador
Greg Guest
CAFO
Controversy in the Texas Panhandle Region: The Environment Crisis of Hog
Production
Douglas H. Constance and Alessandro Bonanno
Why
Food Matters
Warren Belasco
The
Management of Ensete ventricosum in the Gamo Highlands of Southwest
Ethiopia
Daniel M. Cartledge
BOOK REVIEW ESSAY
Rural
Resistance to Globalization and Agricultural Change
Russell Rhoads
BOOK REVIEWS
Child Growth and Nutrition in Developing Countries: Priorities for
Action (Per Pinstrup-Andersen, David Pelletier, and Harold Alderman,
eds.)
Reviewed by Sandra Gray
Intrahousehold Resource Allocation in Developing Countries (Lawrence
Haddad, John Hoddinott, and Harold Alderman, eds.)
Reviewed by Barbara Bonnekessen
Folk Management in the World's Fisheries: Lessons for Modern Fisheries
Management (Christopher L. Dyer and James R. McGoodwin, eds.)
Reviewed by Thomas R. McGuire
Agrarian Reform and Class Consciousness in Nicaragua (Laura J.
Enríquez)
Reviewed by Michael J. Schroeder
Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment: Science, Policy,
and Social Issues (Sheldon Krimsky and Roger Wrubel)
Reviewed by Geoff Lawrence
Vol. 20, Nos. 2/3 (Summer/Fall 1998)
ARTICLES
Comments on Prehistoric Agriculture in Amazonia
William M. Denevan
Scale
and Intensity in Classic Period Maya Agriculture: Terracing and Settlement
at the "Garden City" of Caracol, Belize
Arlen F. Chase and Diane Z. Chase
The
State and Wetland Agriculture in Mesoamerica
Jeffrey L. Baker
Prehispanic
Agrosystems and Adaptive Regions in the Maya Lowlands
Nicholas Dunning, Timothy Beach, Pat Farrell, and Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach
A
Shower of Rain: Marshall Sahlins' Stone Age Economics Twenty-five
Years Later
E. Paul Durrenberger
Settlement
and Land Use at Guijarral, Northwest Belize
Paul J. Hughbanks
BOOK REVIEWS
To
Make a Spotless Orange: Biological Control in California (Richard Sawyer)
Reviewed by Matt Hall
Pastoralism in Africa: Origins and Development Ecology (Andrew
B. Smith)
Reviewed by Richard Waller
The Centrality of Agriculture: Between Humankind and the Rest of
Nature (Colin A.M. Duncan)
Reviewed by James H. McDonald
Vol. 20, No. 1 (Spring 1998)
ARTICLES
Gender,
Agricultural Transformations and Natural Resource Use in the Tierra Caliente
of Michoácan, Mexico
Luz Nereida Pérez Prado
Transformations
in Entitlement: Land Ownership and Farming Culture in Vietnam
Lisa Leimar Price and Florencia G. Palis
Landcare
in Australia: Cultural Transformation in the Management of Rural Environments
Stewart Lockie
Women
and the Household Economy: The Case of the Punjab, Pakistan
Andrew P. Davidson
Global
Shrimp Activism: Trends or Tendencies?
Jasper Goss, David Burch, and Roy Rickson
BOOK REVIEWS
Seeing
Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
(James C. Scott)
Reviewed by Dion Dennis
Risky Rivers: The Economics and Politics of Floodplain Farming in
Amazonia (Michael Chibnik)
Reviewed by William M. Loker
A New Era in Irrigation (National Research Council)
Reviewed by David Guillet
Knowing Your Place: Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy (Barbara
Ching and Gerald W. Creed, eds.)
Reviewed by Kathryn Marie Dudley
The Spirit of Yellowstone: The Cultural Evolution of a National Park
(Judith Meyer)
Reviewed by Tom Jacobs
Agriculture, Foraging and Wildlife Resource Use in Africa: Cultural
and Political Dynamics in the Zambezi Valley (Richard Hasler)
Reviewed by Clark Gibson