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

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.BETTY BERNICE FAUST is a Researcher and the Academic Coordinator of Human Ecology at the Centro de Investigaci?n y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Polit?cnico Nacional in M?rida, Mexico. She is a contributor toWomen In Health(Bergin & Garvey, 1988).

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