Mexican rural development and the plumed serpent : technology and Maya cosmology in the tropical forest of Campeche, Mexico

著者

    • Faust, Betty Bernice

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Mexican rural development and the plumed serpent : technology and Maya cosmology in the tropical forest of Campeche, Mexico

Betty Bernice Faust ; foreword by Betty J. Meggers

Bergin & Garvey, 1998

  • : pbk

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-180) and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

ISBN 9780897894821

内容説明

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.

目次

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
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780897896993

内容説明

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.

目次

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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