Tag: conservation

Following the Man in the Maze

Will Baynard This past semester, after three years of coursework and preliminary research, I became a doctoral candidate in the UW–Madison Anthropology department. In my doctoral research, I explore concepts of sovereignty and governance expressed by members of the Tohono O’odham, an indigenous group with communities on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. My proposed …

Notes from the Field: Everyday Performances of the Guatemala-Mexico Border in the Selva Lacandona

Alicia Barceinas Cruz Early one morning in June, I joined a group of volunteers to work on a potrero (a piece of land with cattle pasture) neighboring the Guatemala-Mexico border. We spent the previous afternoon carefully packing seedlings of tropical trees in a rustic nursery in the Selva Lacandona, in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas. …