Women, sheep and goats. The livestock farming economy of Mexico from a gender perspective
Publication Year
2013
Body
The cattle, sheep, goats and pigs that Europeans brought to America in the late 15th century caused dramatic changes in the environmental landscape and the sociocultural practices of indigenous peoples. These animals slowly became part of Mesoamerican diets and peasant productive systems. Nowadays, some (particularly cattle and pigs) are produced industrially, but all of them continue to be part of small-scale livestock farming systems of rural Mexico. Gender ideology and the market economy determine women
Language
eng
Additional Information
Veronica Vazquez-Garcia --- Colegio de Postgraduados, Texcoco, EDOMEX, Mexico
Collection
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.