From corns to corns: Local agriculture, global disputes

Abstract

In this book, Elsa Guzmán synthetizes her studies on maize agriculture in Mexico, she has been passionate about this topic for years, as is reflected in her publications since 2005 with the following frame analysis. First, she focuses the readers’ attention on the social tradition of Mexican anthropology and agricultural studies, research line centered on the farmer as a social
subject of development with all the contradictions implied on keeping alive and in constant reproduction the ancient culture materialized in relations of production and in constant conflict of interest with the local and global agents of the market.