The Chicken and the Quetzal: Incommensurate Ontologies and Portable Values in Guatemala's Cloud Forest
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In The Chicken and the Quetzal Paul Kockelman theorizes the creation, measurement, and capture of value by recounting the cultural history of a village in Guatemala's highland cloud forests and its relation to conservation movements and ecotourism. In 1990 a group of German ecologists founded an NGO to help preserve the habitat of the resplendent quetzal--the strikingly beautiful national bird of Guatemala--near the village of Chicacnab. The...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822360721
ISBN13:9780822360728
Release Date:January 2016
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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