ANT 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Inequality, North American Free Trade Agreement, Maya Peoples
11 Oct 2017
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Chapter 8/chapter 9: power, politics, social control, gender and the mayas. The thing about documented workers: there is a huge labor market that needs work and employers want the cheapest option, look at who are agricultural workers are illegal immigrants. : looki(cid:374)g to the past to deal (cid:449)ith today"s climate change. There was an ancient system of irrigation that was discovered. Maya far(cid:373)ers (cid:862)su(cid:272)(cid:272)essfully (cid:373)itigated (cid:272)li(cid:373)ate shifts for o(cid:448)er a (cid:373)ille(cid:374)(cid:374)iu(cid:373)(cid:863) North american free trade agreement: has been harmful to both americans and. Archaeologists & local farmers: might recover lost irrigation practices. Faust is trying to raise money with national geographic to continue to recover and possibly reimplement them as well. Largest single block of indigeneous people in north/ central america: north america: mexico, guatemala, honduras. Emerged as identified people over 4,000 years ago. Much diversity within this group of indigeneous people. Corn fields are much of where the economic support comes from.
