Carr, David - In: Agriculture and Human Values 21 (2004) 2, pp. 171-179
ancestry) farmers in a remote agricultural frontier in northern Petén, Guatemala. The research site, the Sierra de Lacandón … written about the dramatic process of colonization and deforestation in Petén, Guatemala's largest and northernmost department … original forest cover in the department remains. Although approximately half of Petén's rural settlers have been Q'eqchí Maya …