5 A Yam, Students, and a Populist Project

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Ac knowledgments xi
5. Introduction
6. 1 The Papaloapan, Poverty, and a Wild Yam 23
7. 2 Mexican Peasants, a Foreign Chemist, and the Mexican Father of the Pill 39
8. 3 Discovering and Gathering the New “Green Gold” 71
9. 4 Patents, Compounds, and Steroid-Making Peasants 91
10. 5 A Yam, Students, and a Populist Project 113
11. 6 The State Takes Control of Barbasco: The Emergence of Proquivemex (1974–1976) 133
12. 7 Proquivemex and Transnational Steroid Laboratories 151
13. 8 Barbasqueros into Mexicans 169
14. 9 Root of Discord 197
15. Epilogue
16. Appendix. General Questionnaire for Former Barbasco Pickers
17. Notes 239
18. Bibliography 287
19. index 319