Lisa J. Lucero

Maya Wisdom and the Survival of Our Planet (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Inspired by decades of archaeological research on the ancestral Maya, Maya Wisdom and the Survival of Our Planet provides a practical roadmap on how to sustainably address climate change and environmental degradation. The author shows how insights of the Maya--past and present--are vital for the survival of our planet and calls for collaborating with rather than dominating the nonhuman world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197765722
• Artikelnr.: 72689783

Autorenporträt

Lisa J. Lucero is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has been conducting archaeology in Belize for over 35 years and is the author of Water and Ritual: The Rise and Fall of Classic Maya Rulers and co-author of If the Past Teaches, What Does the Future Learn? and Changing the Atmosphere: Anthropology and Climate Change.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments--Thirty-Five Years' Worth
Introduction
1. Setting the Stage: Then and Now
2. The Maya
3. Chahk, The Capricious Rain God
4. The Maya Inclusive Worldview
5. Relations with the Three Realms
6. The Maize People
7. House and Cosmos
8. Water Lily Kings
9. Yax Cities
10. The Survival of Our Planet
Index