{"product_id":"kneeling-before-corn-mike-anastario-9780816553372","title":"Kneeling Before Corn: Recuperating More-Than-Human Intimacies on the Salvadoran Milpa","description":"The cultivation of the three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) on subsistence farms in El Salvador is a multispecies, world-making, and ongoing process. Milpa describes a small subsistence corn farm. It is derived from the word \u003ci\u003emilli\u003c\/i\u003e ('field', or a piece of land under active cultivation) in Nahuatl. The milpa is a farming practice that uses perennial, intercropping, and swidden (fire and fallow) techniques that predates the Spanish conquest of the Americas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eKneeling Before Corn\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the intimate relations that develop between plants and humans in the milpas of the northern rural region of El Salvador. It explores the ways in which more-than-human intimacies travel away from and return to the milpa through human networks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Collective and multivocal, this work reflects independent lines of investigation and multiple conversations between co-authors--all of whom have lived in El Salvador for extended periods of time. Throughout the six chapters, the co-authors invite readers to consider more-than-human intimacies by rethinking, experimenting with, and developing new ways of documenting, analyzing, and knowing the intimacies that form between humans and the plants that they cultivate, conserve, long for, and eat. This book offers an innovative account of rural El Salvador in the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mike Anastario, Elena Salamanca, Elizabeth Hawkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816553378\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816553372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Mike Anastario","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45482660921599,"sku":"9780816553372","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9907b0ec-f975-423d-83b6-7145d2f51ca7.jpg?v=1715999176","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kneeling-before-corn-mike-anastario-9780816553372","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}