Mexican Rural Development and the Plumed Serpent - Technology and Maya Cosmology in the Tropical Forest of Campeche, Mexico

This is the first ethnography to be written about a Campeche Maya community. It examines the surviving Maya traditional technologies and sacred cosmologies and discusses the potential for combining these with modern knowledge and technologies to form an efficient new system that will not only provide for ecologically responsible development but will also make possible the cultural survival of this threatened indigenous population.

Table des matières

Preface
Introduction: The Plumed Serpent and Rural Development
Fieldwork: Navigating Friendships in the Dark
Maya Cultural Heritage
Past Transformations of Maya Technology
Working for Water from the Earth and the Sky
Growing the Sacred Bread
The Plumed Serpent, Rural Development, and the Future of the Biosphere
References
Index

A propos de l'auteur

BETTY BERNICE FAUST is a Researcher and the Academic Coordinator of Human Ecology at the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mérida, Mexico. She is a contributor to Women In Health (Bergin & Garvey, 1988).

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Betty Bernice Faust, Faust Betty Bernice
• Edition: Bloomsbury
• Langues: Anglais
• Recommandation d'âge: 7 à 17 ans
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.06.1999
• EAN: 9780897896993
• ISBN: 978-0-89789-699-3
• Pages: 240
• Poids: 369 g
• Catégories: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences naturelles en général; Mexico, Cultural Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Development Studies, Geography and World Cultures: Culture