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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“Writing passionately, even sympathetically, and drawing on much recent scholarship, Faust has made a very personal yet valuable contribution to Maya Studies. Upper-division undergraduates and above.”–Choice
“[O]ne can learn a great deal from it....[I]t is a valuable book indeed.”–South Eastern Latin Americanist
“Most important is the insight [Faust] provides into the actual context of environmental management in the tropics--how indigenous people maintained a complex system over time, and why deforestation and decline have recently occurred. By combining the approaches of the interpretative humanist and the biological scientist, she brings a new and illuminating approach to notoriously difficult questions.”–E. N. Anderson Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
“Faust has provided an engaging ethnographic account on the Yucatec Maya....Her analysis correlates the social life of the Maya, their landscape, and ritual. Details on technological change and exploitation of water resources among the Maya provide a context for consideration of rural development and reflection on the potential for conservation of the natural world. The study is a personal narrative of engagement in the Maya culture by an anthropologist who is committed to advocacy.”–Ellen R. Kintz, Ph.D. Chair, Department of Anthropology, SUNY Geneseo
“[O]ne can learn a great deal from it....[I]t is a valuable book indeed.”–
“Most important is the insight [Faust] provides into the actual context of environmental management in the tropics--how indigenous people maintained a complex system over time, and why deforestation and decline have recently occurred. By combining the approaches of the interpretative humanist and the biological scientist, she brings a new and illuminating approach to notoriously difficult questions.”–
“Faust has provided an engaging ethnographic account on the Yucatec Maya....Her analysis correlates the social life of the Maya, their landscape, and ritual. Details on technological change and exploitation of water resources among the Maya provide a context for consideration of rural development and reflection on the potential for conservation of the natural world. The study is a personal narrative of engagement in the Maya culture by an anthropologist who is committed to advocacy.”–
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This ethnography examines the struggles of the Maya community of Pich, Campeche, and the relationship between technology and the Maya cosmology.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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- The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Vol. 2: Mesoamerica, Part 2 by Richard E. W. Adams on page 390
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