A Favored Place: San Juan River Wetlands, Central Veracruz, A.D. 500 to the Present
Autor Alfred H. Siemensen Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 apr 2013
Siemens organizes his history of the San Juan Basin around the question: What relationships exist between Prehispanic agriculture and the production systems of the tropical lowlands in our own time? This focus allows him to chart the changes in human perceptions and uses of the landscape, from the Prehispanic wetland agricultural system to the drained pastures of today's cattle ranches.
Amplified with air oblique photography, maps, and tables, and enriched with data from archaeology and colonial archives, this is an authoritative historical geography of a wetland landscape. Or, in the author's more modest words, "It seems to me that what I have here is a biography of a swamp."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292754898
ISBN-10: 0292754892
Pagini: 319
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 0292754892
Pagini: 319
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
Alfred Siemens is Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of British Columbia.
Cuprins
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Portrait
- Preface: An Amiable Collaboration
- 1. Finding and Deciphering Patterned Ground in the Lowlands of Mesoamerica
- 2. Deducing the San Juan Basin in A.D. 500
- 3. Probing the Ethnohistorical Literature Surrounding the Encounter
- 4. Reformatting Sixteenth-Century Documents
- 5. Maximizing Some Late-Eighteenth-Century Observations
- 6. Appreciating a Naturalist’s Rendition of Central Veracruz in the Nineteenth Century
- 7. Struggling with a Technocratic Pathology of the Basin in Mid-Twentieth Century
- 8. Summing Up the Yields
- References
- Index
Descriere
A history of land use in a wetland environment in Mexico.