Apuntes sobre la agricultura maicera de humedad y temporal en San Mateo Atenco, Estado de México

Based on modern ethnographic information, this article describes the Mesoamerican maize production system based on the rainy season and moist earth which, together with the system based on irrigation and moist earth, was the most important economical base of the Municipality of San Mateo Atenco, Sta...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Beatriz Albores
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2002
Country:México
Institution:El Colegio Mexiquense, A.C.
Repository:Redalyc-CMQ
OAI Identifier:oai:redalyc.org:10490305
Online Access:https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=10490305
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Multidisciplinarias (Ciencias Sociales)
economic change
agricultural system
ecological transformation
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Summary:Based on modern ethnographic information, this article describes the Mesoamerican maize production system based on the rainy season and moist earth which, together with the system based on irrigation and moist earth, was the most important economical base of the Municipality of San Mateo Atenco, State of Mexico until 1970. In that year, industrial development soared in the area of shoe manufacturing; an event which had numerous socio-cultural consequences, as well as the permanent displacement of maize cultivation to a secondary level.