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A glass of water. A quiet room. And perhaps, a small pot of clean, safe soil—just to understand what you’re reading.

Cardós refuses the safe distance of traditional ethnography. Instead of writing about this act, she asks the central, terrifying question: What does the earth taste like when it is full of poison and ghosts? We have all read ethnographies that pay lip service to the "senses." Cardós actually delivers. Her prose is gritty (literally). She describes the metallic tang of agrochemicals mixing with the mineral sweetness of clay. She documents the texture of soil that has absorbed blood, sweat, and Roundup. pdf cometierra

★★★★☆ (4/5) Deducted one star for the occasional lapse into avant-garde abstraction, but awarded full points for bravery that borders on the insane. A glass of water