Where the Dove Calls: The Political Ecology of a Peasant Corporate Community in Northwestern Mexico

by Thomas E. Sheridan

Book Overview

Thomas Sheridan's study of the municipio of Cucurpe, Sonora, offers new insight into the ability of peasants to respond to ecological and political change. In order to survive as small rancher-farmers, the Cucurpe os battle aridity and one another in a society characterized by sharp economic inequality and long-standing conflict over the distribution of land and water. Sheridan has written an ethnography of resource control, one that weds the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816517037
• ISBN13: 9780816517039
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"