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Latin America comprises varied biophysical environments and diverse populations living in widely disparate economic circumstances.
Endangered Peoples of Latin America: Struggles to Survive and Thrive includes peoples hit hardest by the current globalization trend. Each chapter profiles a specific people or peoples with a cultural overview of their history, subsistence strategies, social and political organization, and religion and world view; threats to their survival; and responses to these threats. A section entitled Food for Thought provides questions that encourage a personal engagement with the experiences of these peoples, and a resource guide suggests further reading and lists films and videos and pertinent organizations and web sites. As the curriculum expands to include more multicultural and indigenous peoples, this unique volume will be valuable to both students and teachers.
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Series Foreword
Introduction by Susan C. Stonich
MexicansThe Mayans of Central Quintana Roo by David Barton Bray
The Rural People of Mexico's Northwest Coast by María L. Cruz-Torres
Villagers at the Edge of Mexico City by Scott S. Robinson
Central AmericansArtisanal Fisherfolk of the Gulf of Fonseca by Jorge Varela Marquez, Kate Cissna, and Susan C. Stonich
The English-Speaking Bay Islanders by Susan C. Stonich
The Miskito of Honduras and Nicaragua by David J. Dodds
Indigenous and Latino Peoples of the Rio Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras by Peter H. Herlihy
The Ngóbe of Western Panama by John R. Bort and Philip D. Young
The Kuna of Panama by James Howe
The Tz'utujil Maya of Guatemala by James Loucky
South AmericansThe Awa of Ecuador by Janet M. Chernela
The Otavaleños of the Ecuadorian Highlands by Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld
The Quechua of the Peruvian Andes by Paul H. Gelles
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SUSAN C. STONICH is Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara./e
