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Paperback Kneeling Before Corn: Recuperating More-Than-Human Intimacies on the Salvadoran Milpa Book

ISBN: 0816553378

ISBN13: 9780816553372

Kneeling Before Corn: Recuperating More-Than-Human Intimacies on the Salvadoran Milpa

The cultivation of the three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) on subsistence farms in El Salvador is a multispecies, world-making, and ongoing process. Milpa describes a small subsistence corn farm. It is derived from the word milli ('field', or a piece of land under active cultivation) in Nahuatl. The milpa is a farming practice that uses perennial, intercropping, and swidden (fire and fallow) techniques that predates the Spanish conquest...

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