We focus on pre-Columbian agricultural regimes in the Maya Lowlands, using new datasets
of archaeological wood charcoal, seeds, phytoliths, and starch grains; biological properties …

One of the consequences of rapid tourism expansion is abrupt pressure on local keystone
resources such as water and energy. While novel wastewater technologies have been …

A range of institutions and individuals are engaging in the provision, translation, and
application of scientific climate information, with the aim of supporting agricultural decision …

342 learn such skills? More broadly, how do we become familiar with local ecologies and
develop diverse subsistence strategies during childhood? Learning to make a living in any …

Focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on urban and periurban Papua New Guinea (PNG),
we discuss the significance of instant ramen noodles to those now known as the “bottom of …

Embodying Ecological Heritage in a Maya Community: Health, Happiness, and Identity
provides an ethnographic account of life in a rural farming village in southern Belize …

This article examines the social and political, as well physical, construction of infrastructure,
by attending to the implications of a highway yet to be built. In southern Belize, where the …

In this analysis, I demonstrate how two aspects of neoliberalism that are often treated
separately—the devolution of responsibility for governing from states to nonstate entities and …

In 2013 there was a spike in the illegal export of rosewood, a highly‐valued tropical
hardwood, from Belize. Hewn by Maya workers at night, logs were sold to Chinese buyers …

In recent years, scholars have studied the complex social and economic transformations of
Belizean Maya livelihoods resulting from the historical legacies of British and Spanish …