Political ecology and cultural change: Impacts on swidden-fallow agroforestry practices among the mopan maya in southern belize

Professional Geographer

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 407-417

  Steinberg, Michael K ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural change; Mopan maya; Swidden fallow

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000126924     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0033-0124.00129     Document Type: Article

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