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Performing the community : representation, ritual and reciprocity in the Totonac
Highlands of Mexico
Govers, C.J.H.
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Govers, C. J. H. (2006). Performing the community : representation, ritual and reciprocity in the Totonac
Highlands of Mexico Berlin: Lit
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ANNEX 3
GARDEN OF TWO AVERAGE HOUSEHOLDS
BETWEEN 1989 AND 1998 2
Type of cultivation 1989
Garden 1 - 300 m2
Garden 2 - 300 m2
air potato, avocado, chayote,
maize, Mexican tea, squash,
tomatoes
Vegetables and plant food
Herbs and spices (including
leaves)
cinnamon, flea chilli
Medicinal plants (see annex 5)
acalypha, allspice, angel's
trumpet, fringed rue, greenstick,
ginger, Mexican false calico,
begonia leaves {xocoyole pinto),
daffodil garlic, large chilli, flea
chilli, oreja de gatto, purple stem
taro (mafafa), prince's feather
{quiltoniles), wild mint
parsley, sedum, sweet violet,
Veracruz pepper, waxweed, wild
absinthium, baby sage,
bloodberry, Mexican giant hyssop,
parsley, rosemary, savory, sweet
marjoram, waxweed, wild mint,
wormwood
mint
Fruit
bananas, guave, lime, orange,
tangerine, wild avocado
Flowers and decorative plants
bananas (various), black sapote,
cherimoya, frisco, guave, lime,
orange, peach (white, yellow),
wild avocado
ala de cotorra, barba de San José, Aztec marigold, begonia, cotton
chrysanthemum, crown of thorns, (Christmas), palm leaves, rose
estrellitas, flor silvestre, hibiscus,
hortensia, palm, rose
Trees
barbados nut, frangipani, great
leadtree (seeds),
capulin, carboncillo, guacal,
mamey (no fruit), vanilla (not
productive)
Other
coffee bushes, Indian shot leaves
(for wrapping tamales), lemon
angel's trumpet (turkey food),
grass (tea), spider flower
coffee, cotton (for medical
purposes), Indian shot leaves,
lemon grass, peanuts
2
The households are the same as household 1 and 2 of annex 2. My aim is to show the variety of
edibles in a village garden. Mestizo households usually have decorative plants and flowers and hardly
any edibles in their gardens, and therefore household 3 is not included. When the house is enlarged or
additional houses are built for the children or grandchildren, cultivation gradually diminishes. In household 1 a new larger brick house was constructed and in household 2 two houses will be built for the
eldest sons. See annex 7 for botanical names.
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ANNEXES
Changes between 1989-1998
Less
Additional
Vegetables and plant food
-
bottlegourd, red bean, runner
Herbs and spices (including
leaves)
cinnamon, flea chilli
Medicinal plants
allspice, parsley, wild mint
bean
allspice, cabbage rose, fringed rue,
sedum
Fruit
tangerine, wild avocado
bananas, mango, melon,
tangerine
Flowers for house altar
hibiscus, palm, barba de San José
Trees
barbados nut, frangipani, great
leadtree (seeds)
Other
Indian shot leaves, spider flower