Betty Faust

Mexican Rural Development and the Plumed Serpent

Technology and Maya Cosmology in the Tropical Forest of Campeche, Mexico

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9780897894821
• ISBN-10: 0897894820
• Artikelnr.: 21141910

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