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“Such critiques remain unthinkable because of the real/constructed divide (sometimes formulated as a division between nature and culture), in which many map the knowledge of the real onto the domain of science (equating the constructed with the cultural).” Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 22.
2 April, 2018
Frank C. Miller – Cultural change as Decision-Making: A Tzotzil Example
Frank C. Miller, “Cultural change as Decision-Making: A Tzotzil Example,” Ethnology 4, No. 1 (Jan. 1965), 53-65. Notes 53 – University of [...]
20 March, 2018
Frank Cancian – Stratification and Risk-Taking: A Theory Tested on Agricultural Innovation
Frank Cancian, “Stratification and Risk-Taking: A Theory Tested on Agricultural Innovation,” American Sociological Review 32, No. 6 (Dec. [...]
20 March, 2018
Frank Cancian – Models of Wealth Stratification and Risk-taking with Regard to Innovation Adoption
20 March, 2018
George M. Foster – Limited Good or Limited Goods: Observations on Acheson
George M. Foster, “Limited Good or Limited Goods: Observations on Acheson,” American Anthropologist 76, No. 1 (Mar. 1974), 53-57. Notes 53 [...]
20 March, 2018
James M. Acheson – New Directions in Economic Anthropology? A Comment on Kunkel
James M. Acheson, “New Directions in Economic Anthropology? A Comment on Kunkel,” American Anthropologist 78, no. 2 (Jun. 1976), 331-335. Notes [...]
20 March, 2018
John H. Kunkel – Opportunity, Economics, and Behavior: A Comment on Acheson and Foster
John H. Kunkel, “Opportunity, Economics, and Behavior: A Comment on Acheson and Foster,” American Anthropologist 78, no. 2 (Jun. 1976), [...]
19 March, 2018
James M. Acheson – Limited Good or Limited Goods? Response to Economic Opportunity in a Tarascan Pueblo
James M. Acheson, “Limited Good or Limited Goods? Response to Economic Opportunity in a Tarascan Pueblo,” American Anthropologist 74, no. 5 [...]
19 March, 2018
David L. Clawson – Intravillage Wealth and Peasant Agricultural Innovation
David L. Clawson, “Intravillage Wealth and Peasant Agricultural Innovation,” The Journal of Developing Areas 12, no. 3 (Apr. 1978), 323-336. [...]
19 March, 2018
Susan W. Almy – Anthropologists and Development Agencies
Susan W. Almy, “Anthropologists and Development Agencies,”American Anthropologist 79, no. 2 (Jun. 1977), 280-292. Notes 280 – Has worked [...]
19 March, 2018
Larissa Lomnitz – Anthropology and Development in Latin America
Larissa Lomnitz, “Anthropology and Development in Latin America,” Human Organization 38, no. 3 (Fall 1979), 313-317. A Latin American [...]
16 March, 2018
Robert Evenson – The ‘Green Revolution’ in Recent Development Experience
Robert Evenson, “The ‘Green Revolution’ in Recent Development Experience,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 56, no. 2 [...]
16 March, 2018
Geo-Climate Region Research in Cereal Grain Production
15 March, 2018
E. Walter Coward and Wayne A. Schutjer – The Green Revolution: Initiating and Sustaining Change
E. Walter Coward and Wayne A. Schutjer, “The Green Revolution: Initiating and Sustaining Change,” Civilisations 20, no. 4 (1970), 473-484. [...]
15 March, 2018
New York Times – A Green Revolution Turns Red January 8th, 1970
15 March, 2018
Billie R. DeWalt – Inequalities in Wealth, Adoption of Technology, and Production in a Mexican Ejido
Billie R. DeWalt, “Inequalities in Wealth, Adoption of Technology, and Production in a Mexican Ejido,” American Ethnologist 2, no. 1 (Feb. [...]
14 March, 2018
Robert D. Stevens – Three Rural Development Models for Small-Farm Agricultural Areas in Low-Income Nations
Robert D. Stevens, “Three Rural Development Models for Small-Farm Agricultural Areas in Low-Income Nations,” The Journal of Developing Areas 8, [...]
12 March, 2018
Christina H. Gladwin – Cognitive Strategies and Adoption Decisions: A Case Study of Nonadoption of an Agronomic Recommendation
Christina H. Gladwin, “Cognitive Strategies and Adoption Decisions: A Case Study of Nonadoption of an Agronomic Recommendation,” Economic [...]
12 March, 2018
Christina H. Gladwin – Production Functions and Decision Models: Complementary Models
Christina H. Gladwin, “Production Functions and Decision Models: Complementary Models,” American Ethnologist 6, no. 4 (Nov. 1979), 653-674. [...]
12 March, 2018
Theodore W. Schultz – Knowledge, Agriculture and Welfare
Theodore W. Schultz, “Knowledge, Agriculture and Welfare,” Science Studies 2, no. 4 (Oct. 1972), 361-368. Notes 361-2 – “The main reasons [...]
11 March, 2018
Rodolfo Stavenhagen – Decolonializing Applied Social Sciences
Rodolfo Stavenhagen, “Decolonializing Applied Social Sciences,” Human Organization 30, no. 4 (Winter 1971), 333-344. Summary and description of [...]
10 March, 2018
Frank C. Miller – Knowledge and Power: Anthropology, Policy Research, and the Green Revolution
Frank C. Miller, “Knowledge and Power: Anthropology, Policy Research, and the Green Revolution,” American Ethnologist 4, no. 1 (Feb. 1977), [...]
9 March, 2018
Edgardo Moscardi and Alain de Janvry – Attitudes Toward Risk among Peasants: An Econometric Approach
Edgardo Moscardi and Alain de Janvry, “Attitudes Toward Risk among Peasants: An Econometric Approach,” American Journal of Agricultural [...]
8 March, 2018
Christina H. Gladwin – A View of the Plan Puebla: An Application of Hierarchical Decision Models
Christina H. Gladwin, “A View of the Plan Puebla: An Application of Hierarchical Decision Models,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 58, no. 5 [...]
8 March, 2018
Decision-making Tree Model of Plan Puebla Recommendation Adoption – From Christina Gladwin
8 March, 2018
Billie R. DeWalt – Appropriate Technology in Rural Mexico: Antecedents and Consequences of an Indigenous Peasant Innovation
Billie R. DeWalt, “Appropriate Technology in Rural Mexico: Antecedents and Consequences of an Indigenous Peasant Innovation,” Technology and [...]
8 March, 2018
“Arado de Tubo” Planting Implement
6 March, 2018
Robert V. Burke – Green Revolution Technologies and Farm Class in Mexico
Robert V. Burke, “Green Revolution Technologies and Farm Class in Mexico,” Economic Development and Cultural Change 28, no. 1 (Oct. 1979), [...]
6 March, 2018
Clifton R. Wharton Jr. – The Green Revolution: Cornucopia or Pandora’s Box
Clifton R. Wharton Jr., “The Green Revolution: Cornucopia or Pandora’s Box,” Foreign Affairs 47, no. 3 (Apr. 1969), 464-476. Notes 464 [...]
2 March, 2018
James H. Street – The Technological Frontier in Latin America: Creativity and Productivity
James H. Street, “The Technological Frontier in Latin America: Creativity and Productivity,” Journal of Economic Issues 10, no. 3 (Sep. 1976), [...]
2 March, 2018
Jorge Martinez Rios – Las Invasiones Agrarias en Mexico (o la Crisis del Modelo de Incorporacion-participacion Marginal)
Ríos, Jorge Martínez. “Las Invasiones Agrarias En México: (O La Crisis Del Modelo De Incorporación-participación Marginal).” Revista Mexicana [...]
1 March, 2018
Ernest Feder – Notes on the New Penetration of the Agricultures of Developing Countries by Industial Nations
Ernest Feder, “Notes on the New Penetration of the Agricultures of Developing Countries by Industial Nations,” Boletin de Estudio [...]
1 March, 2018
E.C. Stakman, Richard Bradfield, Paul C. Mangelsdorf – Campaigns Against Hunger
E.C. Stakman, Richard Bradfield, Paul C. Mangelsdorf, Campaigns Against Hunger (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1967). Notes Note militaristic language of the title [...]
28 February, 2018
Karin Matchett – At Odds over Inbreeding: An Abandoned Attempt at Mexico/United States Collaboration to ‘Improve’ Mexican Corn, 1940-1950
Karin Matchett, “At Odds over Inbreeding: An Abandoned Attempt at Mexico/United States Collaboration to ‘Improve’ Mexican Corn, [...]
27 February, 2018
Billie R. DeWalt – Alternative Adaptive Strategies in a Mexican Ejido: A New Perspective on Modernization and Development
Billie R. DeWalt, “Alternative Adaptive Strategies in a Mexican Ejido: A New Perspective on Modernization and Development,” Human Organization [...]
27 February, 2018
William I. Jones – Mexico’s Puebla Project: Is there Hope for the Minifundias?
William I. Jones, “Mexico’s Puebla Project: Is there Hope for the Minifundias?,” Ekistics 36, no. 217 (Dec. 1973), 395-397. Notes 395 [...]
26 February, 2018
Carlos A. Benito – Peasants’ Response to Modernization Projects in “Minifundia” Economies
Carlos A. Benito, “Peasants’ Response to Modernization Projects in “Minifundia” Economies,” American Journal of Agricultural [...]
25 February, 2018
Harry M. Cleaver Jr. – Contradictions of the Green Revolution
Harry M. Cleaver Jr., “Contradictions of the Green Revolution,” The American Economic Review 62, no. 1/2 (Mar. 1972), 177-186. Notes 180-181 [...]
25 February, 2018
Harry M. Cleaver Jr. – Las Contradicciones de la “Revolucion Verde”: Algunas Contradicciones del Capitalismo
Harry M. Cleaver Jr., “Las Contradicciones de la “Revolucion Verde”: Algunas Contradicciones del Capitalismo,” Investigacion [...]
24 February, 2018
“Hybrid corn was the invention of a method of inventing, a method of breeding superior corn for specific localities. It was not a single invention immediately adaptable everywhere. The actual breeding of adaptable hybrids had to be done separately for each area.” From Zvi Griliches, “Hybrid Corn: An Exploration in the Economics of Technological Change” […]
22 February, 2018
Zvi Griliches – Hybrid Corn: An Exploration in the Economics of Technological Change
Zvi Griliches, “Hybrid Corn: An Exploration in the Economics of Technological Change,” Econometrica 25, no. 4 (Oct. 1957), 501-522. Notes 501 [...]
22 February, 2018
Elihu Katz, Martin Levin and Herbert Hamilton – Traditions of Research on the Diffusion of Innovation
Elihu Katz, Martin Levin and Herbert Hamilton, “Traditions of Research on the Diffusion of Innovation,” American Sociological Review 28, no. 2 [...]
22 February, 2018
V. W. Ruttan and Yujiro Hayami – Technology Transfer and Agricultural Development
V. W. Ruttan and Yujiro Hayami, “Technology Transfer and Agricultural Development,” Technology and Culture 14, no. 2 (April 1973), 119-151. [...]
22 February, 2018
How do we deal with an episode of epistemic colonialism invited by the to-be-colonized? Must we establish that the invitation of the Rockefeller Foundation program by the Mexican government does not represent an autonomous decision by every denizen of that government? Can we establish, somehow, that to indigenous groups within Mexico, the Mexican federal government […]
22 February, 2018
Alfonso Gonzalez – Problems of Agricultural Development in a Pioneer Region of Southwestern Coastal Mexico
Alfonso Gonzalez, “Problems of Agricultural Development in a Pioneer Region of Southwestern Coastal Mexico,” Revista Geografica 64 (June 1966), [...]
19 February, 2018
David Jones – The Green Revolution in Latin America: Success or Failure?
David M. Jones, “The Green Revolution in Latin American: Success or Failure?,” Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers Publication Series 6 [...]
19 February, 2018
Diffusion of the Mexican Wheat Revolution
19 February, 2018
Donald Freebairn – The Dichotomy of Prosperity and Poverty in Mexican Agriculture
Donald K. Freebairn, “The Dichotomy of Prosperity and Poverty in Mexican Agriculture,” Land Economics 45, no. 1 (Feb. 1969), 31-42. Notes 31-2 [...]
18 February, 2018
Private Sector Land Holdings and Their Crop Values in Mexico
18 February, 2018
L. M. Roberts – The Rockefeller Foundation Program in the Agricultural Sciences
L. M. Roberts, “The Rockefeller Foundation Program in the Agricultural Sciences,” Economic Botany 15, no. 4 (Fall 1961), 296-301. Notes 299-300 [...]
18 February, 2018







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