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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Household ecology,
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This review is from: HOUSEHOLD ECOLOGY: ECONOMIC CHANGE AND DOMESTIC LIFE AMONG THE KEKCHI MAYA IN BELIZE (Paperback)
Wilk develops an excellent model for talking about social organization. Based around an ethnography of the Kekchi Maya, household ecology presents a model that allows the anthropologist to deal with such issues as history, gender relations, markets, subsistence and political organization (and that is easily transferred to different settings for comparative work). This is a book for readers interested in understanding how households function as social institutions, it is replete with information and useful data. Not for a beginner, but for the student of anthropology and ecology, this is an important text.
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Household Ecology,
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This review is from: HOUSEHOLD ECOLOGY: ECONOMIC CHANGE AND DOMESTIC LIFE AMONG THE KEKCHI MAYA IN BELIZE (Paperback)
Despite the opaque, academic name, this book is very readable and provides a lot of insight into the economic and cultural life of the Kekchi people in a respectful way. It is good to read a book that both honours the uniqueness of an indigenous people while at the same time recognizing them as creative human beings who respond to life pressures according to internal values like everyone else, and not as some sort of artifact of the past.
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HOUSEHOLD ECOLOGY: ECONOMIC CHANGE AND DOMESTIC LIFE AMONG THE KEKCHI MAYA IN BELIZE by Richard Wilk (Paperback - November 1, 1997)
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