Maya Wisdom and the Survival of Our Planet

Inspired by decades of archaeological research on the ancestral Maya, Maya Wisdom and the Survival of Our Planet provides a practical roadmap on how to sustainably address climate change and environmental degradation. The author shows how insights of the Maya--past and present--are vital for the survival of our planet and calls for collaborating with rather than dominating the nonhuman world.

List of contents

• Preface


• Acknowledgments--Thirty-Five Years' Worth


• Introduction


• 1. Setting the Stage: Then and Now


• 2. The Maya


• 3. Chahk, The Capricious Rain God


• 4. The Maya Inclusive Worldview


• 5. Relations with the Three Realms


• 6. The Maize People


• 7. House and Cosmos


• 8. Water Lily Kings


• 9. Yax Cities


• 10. The Survival of Our Planet


• Index

About the author

Lisa J. Lucero is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has been conducting archaeology in Belize for over 35 years and is the author of Water and Ritual: The Rise and Fall of Classic Maya Rulers and co-author of If the Past Teaches, What Does the Future Learn? and Changing the Atmosphere: Anthropology and Climate Change.

Summary

Inspired by decades of archaeological research on the ancestral Maya, Maya Wisdom and the Survival of Our Planet provides a practical roadmap on how to sustainably address climate change and environmental degradation. The author shows how insights of the Maya--past and present--are vital for the survival of our planet and calls for collaborating with rather than dominating the nonhuman world.

Additional text

In a book that masterfully contributes to our rethinking what we know about the resilience, agriculture, and cities of the ancestral Maya, Lucero also asks us to rethink our own relationships to the water, soils, plants, and animals around us in an age of crisis.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa J. Lucero, Lisa J. (Professor of Anthropology Lucero, Lucero Lisa J.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.2025
• EAN: 9780197765708
• ISBN: 978-0-19-776570-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Sustainability, SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, Global Warming, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Latin America / Central America, Social & cultural anthropology, Archaeology, Social and cultural anthropology, Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology, Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands, Environmental archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies