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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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Autorenporträt
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).
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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