Daily Life Rhythms of the Mexican Mountains: Narrating Milpa and Coffee Landscapes in Baxtla and Mixtla de Altamirano

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Within the Mesoamerican worldview, maize is synonymous with the body and represents the primary food of the human being, accompanied by a complex planting system known as milpa. Said system, we believe, celebrates the interrelation between the diversity of species, serving, in this way, as a metaphor to understand our social construction. In this metaphor, there is an interrelationship between human beings and the landscape in a chain of changes manifested in daily life; that is to say, the changes are visible by exploring inhabiting; how we produce; and how our environment produces us. Through the rescue of this interrelation exploring the narration of daily life in Baxtla, and Mixtla de Altamirano, this presentation aims to blur the fine lines that separate the milpa and the coffee plantations and the many ways in which this traditional agroforestry systems have changed.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 37784.0