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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830380803321

Autore

Wainwright Joel

Titolo

Decolonizing development : colonial power and the Maya / / Joel Wainwright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA : , : Blackwell Publishing, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

1-4443-9979-9

1-281-84074-2

9786611840747

0-470-71295-3

0-470-71270-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Collana

Antipode book series

Disciplina

305.897427072824

Soggetti

Mayas - Belize - Toledo District - Economic conditions

Mayas - Agriculture - Belize - Toledo District

Mayas - Belize - Toledo District - Social conditions

Toledo District (Belize) Colonial influence

Toledo District (Belize) Economic conditions

Toledo District (Belize) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Unsettling the Colonial geographies of southern Belize -- The matter of the Maya farm system -- An archaeology of Mayanism -- From colonial to development knowledge : Charles Wright and the battles over the Columbia River Forest -- Settling : fieldwork in the ruins of development -- Finishing the critique of cultural ecology : reading the Maya Atlas.

Sommario/riassunto

Decolonizing Development investigates the ways colonialism shaped the modern world by analyzing the relationship between colonialism and development as forms of power.:.; Based on novel interpretations of postcolonial and Marxist theory and applied to original research data.; Amply supplemented with maps and illustrations.; An intriguing and invaluable resource for scholars of postcolonialism, development,



geography, and the Maya