Food, Medicine, or Poison?: Understanding Relationships Between Apazote (Dysphania Ambrosioides) and Communities Across Guatemala
Tabitha Faber One of the hallmarks of colonialism, and of Western hegemony embedded within colonialism, is the impulse to essentialize in order to assimilate. Ideas, technologies, and lifeways from other cultures are broken down to their smallest parts to more easily integrate them into one totalizing Western framework. One framework, though, cannot hold the vast …