An Indigenous P'urhepecha History of Environmental Knowledge from Colonisation to Self-Government

Thu 26 Nov · Room 103 · WC1H

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The way we produce food and medicines today is leading plants and animals (and eventually humans) to extinction. In contrast, Indigenous peoples around the globe, such as the P’urhepecha from western Mexico, preserve world agrobiodiversity. This presentation studies the origin of global agrobiodiversity loss in the colonisation of the Americas in the early modern era by focusing on the colonial Spanish project to introduce monocrops such as sugar cane or wheat to colonial Mexico in the sixteenth century to the detriment of Indigenous land use.

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An Indigenous P'urhepecha History of Environmental Knowledge from Colonisation to Self-Government

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