ROOTS AND FRUITS: SOCIAL CLASS AND INTERCROPPING IN JAMAICA.

Title: ROOTS AND FRUITS: SOCIAL CLASS AND INTERCROPPING IN JAMAICA.
Identifier: AAI8302539
identifier: 8302539
Creator: RASHFORD, JOHN HARVEY.
Contributor: Prof. Eric Wolf
Date: 1982
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Anthropology, Cultural
Abstract: The simultaneous growing of two or more crops in the same field is the traditional practice of the majority of Jamaican farmers. Today, plants brought from all quarters of the world are now intercropped in yards and fields throughout the island. This thesis examines the relation between social class and intercropping. It shows that the control farmers have over land determines the kind of growing plants cultivated and the way in which they are cultivated. When farmers have secure control over land they grow trees and trees intercropped with herbs, vines and shrubs gives rise to what is identified as Jamaica's "Food Forest." This research is based on field work conducted in three districts in northeastern Jamaica.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.
Program: Anthropology