Daily Life Rhythms: Narrating Milpa Landscapes in Mexican mountains & Sustaining Agroforestry Practices in Brazil

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Weaving Epistemes: Community-Based Research in Latin America" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper highlights the importance of agroforestry communities in Latin America as guardians of ancestral knowledge related to plant cultivation and ecological practices that have shaped the region's landscape and cultural heritage. These communities celebrate the interconnectedness between people and the environment, resulting in a chain of social practices that permeate their daily lives. This paper explores the transmission of this knowledge and the articulation between ancient and new techniques in traditional communities in Mexico and Brazil. Over generations, these communities have integrated food into complex and sustainable ecosystems, as exemplified by maize production in Baxtla, Mixtla de Altamirano, and the managed areas in the Atlantic Forest by the Tupiniquim of São Paulo to achieve food self-sufficiency. By reclaiming this interconnectedness into narratives of everyday life, we emphasize the persistence and engagement in the exchange of knowledge in various times and places.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Weaving Epistemes: Community-Based Research in Latin America   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 40405.0