Embodying Ecological Heritage

Informationen zum Autor Kristina Baines is assistant professor at Guttman Community College, CUNY and an applied social anthropologist. Klappentext Embodying Ecological Heritage in a Maya Community is a rich ethnography detailing how ecological heritage practices are central to life and health in a Maya community. It clearly illuminates the more nuanced effects of development processes, including land rights, healthcare access, and education access. Zusammenfassung Embodying Ecological Heritage in a Maya Community is a rich ethnography detailing how ecological heritage practices are central to life and health in a Maya community. It clearly illuminates the more nuanced effects of development processes! including land rights! healthcare access! and education access. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresChapter 1. Beginning at the End: "he is nearly dead"Chapter 2. The Mopan Maya in Belize: "They do it different across"Chapter 3. Nutrition as Tradition: "It's what Indian people eat"Chapter 4. Bodies at Work, Bodies at Rest: "we boss ourselves"Chapter 5. Educating Well: "they are lazy to learn it now"Chapter 6. Changing Spaces, Changing Faces: "I could not live where there is no jippy jappa"Chapter 7. Alone, Together: "you are not afraid?"Chapter 8. Ending at the Beginning: "the past is the future"ReferencesAbout the Author

Product details

• Authors: Kristina Baines, Baines Kristina
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2016
• EAN: 9781498512824
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-1282-4
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Latin America / Central America, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, History of the Americas, Central America, Mexico and Central America