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Liza Grandia connects global economics, local livelihoods, and concerns for cultural survival in a way few writers manage to do. Enclosed makes transparent the social processes underpinning tropical deforestation, entrenched poverty, and the vulnerabilities created by global capital. Nora Haenn, author of Fields of Power, Forests of Discontent: Culture, Conservation and the State of Mexico A compelling read and a significant scholarly contribution to our understanding of indigenous communities dealing with the destructive but also seductive penetration of global corporate interests. Eugene Hunn, author of A Zapotec Natural History: Trees, Herbs, and Flowers, Birds, Beasts, and Bugs in the Life of San Juan Gbee

Liza Grandia connects global economics, local livelihoods, and concerns for cultural survival in a way few writers manage to do. Enclosed makes transparent the social processes underpinning tropical deforestation, entrenched poverty, and the vulnerabilities created by global capital. Nora Haenn, author of Fields of Power, Forests of Discontent: Culture, Conservation and the State of Mexico A compelling read and a significant scholarly contribution to our understanding of indigenous communities dealing with the destructive but also seductive penetration of global corporate interests. Eugene Hunn, author of A Zapotec Natural History: Trees, Herbs, and Flowers, Birds, Beasts, and Bugs in the Life of San Juan Gbee Enclosed is an engaged and engaging account of contested resources that seeks to demonstrate the impacts of historical and contemporary land enclosures on Q'eqchi' livelihoods, migration, resource use, and resistance. Grandia uses history and ethnography to show that while 'globalization is nothing new to the Q'eqchi , its scale and specifics have changed over the last 500 years. - Sophie Haines, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2013

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Liza Grandia is assistant professor of Native American studies at UC Davis.

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