The Maya Forest and Indigenous Resistance during the Caste War

IF 0.3 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Global Environment Pub Date : 2021-02-17 DOI:10.3197/GE.2021.140105

D. Pretel

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Abstract

This article provides an environmental history of indigenous resistance during the Caste War, a major Indian revolt that took place in the Yucata?n peninsula between 1847 and 1901. It argues that the evolution of the war was bound to the material conditions of the vast Maya rainforest and the expanding built environment at this area?s commodity frontiers. In this regard, the article advances two main theses. First, that the Maya rainforest was an ideal battleground for the insurgents? guerrilla warfare but extremely challenging for regular military columns. Second, that indigenous subversion and survival rested on both commodity extraction and everyday agricultural practices carried out in the forest. In short, indigenous resistance was built on the ecology and geography of the rainforest at the contested interstices of empires and nations.

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种姓战争期间的玛雅森林和土著抵抗

这篇文章提供了在种姓战争期间土著抵抗的环境历史，这是一场发生在尤卡塔?1847年至1901年间的一个半岛。它认为，战争的演变与广阔的玛雅雨林的物质条件和该地区不断扩大的建筑环境有关。美国的商品边界。在这方面，本文提出了两个主要论点。首先，玛雅雨林是叛乱分子的理想战场?游击战，但对正规军事纵队来说极具挑战性。第二，土著的颠覆和生存依赖于商品开采和在森林中进行的日常农业实践。简而言之，土著的抵抗是建立在帝国和国家争夺的间隙的雨林的生态和地理上的。

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Global Environment ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

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0.50

自引率

25.00%

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期刊介绍： The half-yearly journal Global Environment: A Journal of History and Natural and Social Sciences acts as a forum and echo chamber for ongoing studies on the environment and world history, with special focus on modern and contemporary topics. Our intent is to gather and stimulate scholarship that, despite a diversity of approaches and themes, shares an environmental perspective on world history in its various facets, including economic development, social relations, production government, and international relations. One of the journal’s main commitments is to bring together different areas of expertise in both the natural and the social sciences to facilitate a common language and a common perspective in the study of history. This commitment is fulfilled by way of peer-reviewed research articles and also by interviews and other special features. Global Environment strives to transcend the western-centric and ‘developist’ bias that has dominated international environmental historiography so far and to favour the emergence of spatially and culturally diversified points of view. It seeks to replace the notion of ‘hierarchy’ with those of ‘relationship’ and ‘exchange’ – between continents, states, regions, cities, central zones and peripheral areas – in studying the construction or destruction of environments and ecosystems.