Kneeling Before Corn - 9780816553372

University of Arizona Press

Kneeling Before CornRecuperating More-than-Human Intimacies on the Salvadoran Milpa\nAuthor(s): Mike Anastario, Elena Salamanca, Elizabeth Hawkins\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Arizona Press, United States\nImprint: University of Arizona Press\nISBN-13: 9780816553372, 978-0816553372\nSynopsis\nThe 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 milli (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.\n\nKneeling Before Corn 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 fro.