Ronald Nigh
Biographic Data
| ID | 645194 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald Nigh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald |
| FAMILY NAME | Nigh |
| SIGNATURE | NIGH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2853-4111 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Y sigue la milpa dando
Reseña de libro de Claudia Irene Sánchez Gómez et al. (2022). Milpa Corazón. Las milpas de los Guardianes. México: Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, 230 pp. disponible en https://bioteca.biodiversidad.gob.mx/libros.html
Agroecology from the ground up
Agroecología en la periferia
En este documento examina la ampliación de las prácticas agroecológicas en el territorio maya achí de Guatemala. Comparamos este caso con otros documentados en la literatura, así como los factores clave o “impulsores” importantes para su escalamiento. Hemos constatado la complejidad de sus factores impulsores y que estos, como los métodos constructivistas de aprendizaje/enseñanza, las políticas públicas favorables y el fuerte tejido social, parec…
Escalamiento de la agroecología desde el huerto escolar y la importancia de reconocer la cultura, los alimentos y lugar
We explore potential and limitations for agroecological scaling through formal educational structures, using the LabVida school gardens program in Chiapas, Mexico as a case study. Through LabVida training, educators gained an appreciation of agroecology and were able to apply agroecological practices in their school gardens, although their understanding of agroecological principles and scientific process remained limited. The greatest program imp…
Indigenous Knowledge and Education in Chiapas, Mexico
We review two related intercultural education projects designed from the bottom-up, Laboratorios Socionaturales Vivos y Milpas Educativas (Living Socio-Natural Laboratories and Educational Milpas) and Laboratorios para la Vida (Laboratories for Life, a school garden project). Both projects involve activities outside the classroom, using the Intercultural Inductive Method, discussed here, and a syntactic concept of culture; a method and a concept …
Origins of the Maya Forest Garden
There is growing interest in the ecology of the Maya Forest past, present, and future, as well as in the role of humans in the transformation of this ecosystem. In this paper, we bring together and re-evaluate paleoenvironmental, ethnobiological, and archaeological data to reconstruct the related effects of climatic shifts and human adaptations to and alterations of the lowland Maya Forest. In particular, we consider the paleoenvironmental data f…
Trees, Fire And Farmers
Understanding agriculture in tropical landscapes is an interdisciplinary task, focusing the interest of the ecological, physical and social sciences. Reporting on results of a long-term collaborative study of Lakandon Maya agroforestry, I review our recent insights into successional processes and the genesis of anthropic soil under Maya management. Milpa, a multicropping system centered on maize with a range of many companion crops is the axis of…
Smallholder participation and certification of organic farm products in Mexico
On Maya Medicine and the Biomedical Gaze
Maya Medicine in the Biological Gaze
The relationship of human societies to territory and natural resources is being drastically altered by a series of global agreements concerning trade, intellectual property, and the conservation and use of genetic resources. Through a characteristic style of collective appropriation of their tropical ecosystems, Maya societies have created local institutions for governing access to their common resources. However, new mechanisms of global governa…
Global Processes and Local Identity among Mayan Coffee Growers in Chiapas, Mexico
This case study of the organic farmers' cooperative Indigenas de la Sierra Madre de Motozintla (ISMAM) explores the construction of identity as a dialogic process in which external elements are appropriated to permit resistance and creative adaptation to global processes. Building on indigenous Mam respect for nature, ISMAM forges a corporate image that responds to symbolic demands of the alternative marketplace and a self-image reaffirming tradi…
Organic Agriculture and Globalization
Indigenas de la Sierra Madre de Motozintla (ISMAM), the world's foremost producer of organic gourmet coffee, is a prominent example of an associative corporation, an organizational form combining aspects of traditional Indian social organization and modern capitalist enterprises. The development of ISMAM's organic strategy is analyzed as acheiving multiple goals, including improving soils and improving marketing conditions by permitting greater v…
Animal Agriculture for the Reforestation of Degraded Tropical Rainforests
Animal Agriculture for the Reforestation of Degraded Tropical Rainforests
The Evolutionary Potential of Lacandon Maya Sustained-Yield Tropical Forest Agriculture
As centuries-long residents of the southern Maya lowlands, the Lacandon Maya of Chiapas, Mexico have developed and preserved ecologically sound strategies for sustained-yield food production in the tropical forest biome. Their traditional system of agriculture and food extraction emphasizes successful exploitation of the rain forest environment in a manner compatible with forest regeneration and preservation. The authors describe the Lacandon sys…
Cattle, Cash, Food, and Forest; The Destruction of the American Tropics and the Lacandon Maya Alternative
Cattle, Cash, Food, and Forest; The Destruction of the American Tropics and the Lacandon Maya Alternative
The Evolutionary Potential of Lacandon Maya Sustained-Yield Tropical Forest Agriculture
As centuries-long residents of the southern Maya lowlands, the Lacandon Maya of Chiapas, Mexico have developed and preserved ecologically sound strategies for sustained-yield food production in the tropical forest biome. Their traditional system of agriculture and food extraction emphasizes successful exploitation of the rain forest environment in a manner compatible with forest regeneration and preservation. The authors describe the Lacandon sys…
Global Processes and Local Identity among Mayan Coffee Growers in Chiapas, Mexico
This case study of the organic farmers' cooperative Indigenas de la Sierra Madre de Motozintla (ISMAM) explores the construction of identity as a dialogic process in which external elements are appropriated to permit resistance and creative adaptation to global processes. Building on indigenous Mam respect for nature, ISMAM forges a corporate image that responds to symbolic demands of the alternative marketplace and a self-image reaffirming tradi…
Maya Medicine in the Biological Gaze
The relationship of human societies to territory and natural resources is being drastically altered by a series of global agreements concerning trade, intellectual property, and the conservation and use of genetic resources. Through a characteristic style of collective appropriation of their tropical ecosystems, Maya societies have created local institutions for governing access to their common resources. However, new mechanisms of global governa…
Smallholder participation and certification of organic farm products in Mexico
On Maya Medicine and the Biomedical Gaze
Cattle, Cash, Food, and Forest; The Destruction of the American Tropics and the Lacandon Maya Alternative
Cattle, Cash, Food, and Forest; The Destruction of the American Tropics and the Lacandon Maya Alternative
Cattle, Cash, Food, and Forest; The Destruction of the American Tropics and the Lacandon Maya Alternative
The Evolutionary Potential of Lacandon Maya Sustained-Yield Tropical Forest Agriculture
As centuries-long residents of the southern Maya lowlands, the Lacandon Maya of Chiapas, Mexico have developed and preserved ecologically sound strategies for sustained-yield food production in the tropical forest biome. Their traditional system of agriculture and food extraction emphasizes successful exploitation of the rain forest environment in a manner compatible with forest regeneration and preservation. The authors describe the Lacandon sys…
Animal Agriculture for the Reforestation of Degraded Tropical Rainforests
Animal Agriculture for the Reforestation of Degraded Tropical Rainforests
Organic Agriculture and Globalization
Indigenas de la Sierra Madre de Motozintla (ISMAM), the world's foremost producer of organic gourmet coffee, is a prominent example of an associative corporation, an organizational form combining aspects of traditional Indian social organization and modern capitalist enterprises. The development of ISMAM's organic strategy is analyzed as acheiving multiple goals, including improving soils and improving marketing conditions by permitting greater v…
Global Processes and Local Identity among Mayan Coffee Growers in Chiapas, Mexico
This case study of the organic farmers' cooperative Indigenas de la Sierra Madre de Motozintla (ISMAM) explores the construction of identity as a dialogic process in which external elements are appropriated to permit resistance and creative adaptation to global processes. Building on indigenous Mam respect for nature, ISMAM forges a corporate image that responds to symbolic demands of the alternative marketplace and a self-image reaffirming tradi…
On Maya Medicine and the Biomedical Gaze
Maya Medicine in the Biological Gaze
The relationship of human societies to territory and natural resources is being drastically altered by a series of global agreements concerning trade, intellectual property, and the conservation and use of genetic resources. Through a characteristic style of collective appropriation of their tropical ecosystems, Maya societies have created local institutions for governing access to their common resources. However, new mechanisms of global governa…
Smallholder participation and certification of organic farm products in Mexico
Trees, Fire And Farmers
Understanding agriculture in tropical landscapes is an interdisciplinary task, focusing the interest of the ecological, physical and social sciences. Reporting on results of a long-term collaborative study of Lakandon Maya agroforestry, I review our recent insights into successional processes and the genesis of anthropic soil under Maya management. Milpa, a multicropping system centered on maize with a range of many companion crops is the axis of…
Origins of the Maya Forest Garden
There is growing interest in the ecology of the Maya Forest past, present, and future, as well as in the role of humans in the transformation of this ecosystem. In this paper, we bring together and re-evaluate paleoenvironmental, ethnobiological, and archaeological data to reconstruct the related effects of climatic shifts and human adaptations to and alterations of the lowland Maya Forest. In particular, we consider the paleoenvironmental data f…
Indigenous Knowledge and Education in Chiapas, Mexico
We review two related intercultural education projects designed from the bottom-up, Laboratorios Socionaturales Vivos y Milpas Educativas (Living Socio-Natural Laboratories and Educational Milpas) and Laboratorios para la Vida (Laboratories for Life, a school garden project). Both projects involve activities outside the classroom, using the Intercultural Inductive Method, discussed here, and a syntactic concept of culture; a method and a concept …
Agroecología en la periferia
En este documento examina la ampliación de las prácticas agroecológicas en el territorio maya achí de Guatemala. Comparamos este caso con otros documentados en la literatura, así como los factores clave o “impulsores” importantes para su escalamiento. Hemos constatado la complejidad de sus factores impulsores y que estos, como los métodos constructivistas de aprendizaje/enseñanza, las políticas públicas favorables y el fuerte tejido social, parec…
Escalamiento de la agroecología desde el huerto escolar y la importancia de reconocer la cultura, los alimentos y lugar
We explore potential and limitations for agroecological scaling through formal educational structures, using the LabVida school gardens program in Chiapas, Mexico as a case study. Through LabVida training, educators gained an appreciation of agroecology and were able to apply agroecological practices in their school gardens, although their understanding of agroecological principles and scientific process remained limited. The greatest program imp…
Agroecology from the ground up
Y sigue la milpa dando
Reseña de libro de Claudia Irene Sánchez Gómez et al. (2022). Milpa Corazón. Las milpas de los Guardianes. México: Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, 230 pp. disponible en https://bioteca.biodiversidad.gob.mx/libros.html
Geography (13 works) · Archaeology (11 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Agriculture (10 works) · Biology (10 works) · Maya (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Ecology (5 works)