Mexican Rural Development and the Plumed Serpent: Technology and Maya Cosmology in the Tropical Forest of Campeche, Mexico

Betty Bernice Faust/ The Plumed Serpent/ Rural Development

ISBN 10: 0897896998 / ISBN 13: 9780897896993

Published by Bergin & Garvey, 1999

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240 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Seller Inventory # x-0897896998

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mexican Rural Development and the Plumed Serpent: Technology and Maya Cosmology in the Tropical Forest of Campeche, Mexico
• Publisher: Bergin & Garvey
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0897896998
• ISBN 13: 9780897896993
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.8 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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).