ABSTRACT
It is an impossible task to cover the extensive bibliography on traditional agriculture, and there are many studies about it, its histories, and the discussions and problems that arose around it. Studies of traditional agriculture along with ethnobiological, ethnobotanical, and plant economics, or those related to the genome of plants such as maize, enriched knowledge about agriculture in general. In the 1980s, with the beginning of the neoliberal reform in the Mexican economy, several local impacts occurred in the societies of small-scale farmers in Mexico. If one starts from the simple and obvious idea that the study of agriculture, culture, and its forms of interrelation with human societies is a central objective in ecological anthropology, one must consider the existence of various anthropological currents that study agriculture.
