Kristina Baines

Embodying Ecological Heritage in a Maya Community

Health, Happiness, and Identity

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 242g
• ISBN-13: 9781498512848
• ISBN-10: 1498512844
• Artikelnr.: 48699848

Autorenporträt

Kristina Baines is assistant professor at Guttman Community College, CUNY and an applied social anthropologist.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Chapter 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" References About the Author