Endangered peoples of Latin America : struggles to survive and thrive / / edited by Susan C. Stonich

• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn : , : Greenwood Press, , 2001; London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 323.1/19808
• Soggetto topico: Indians, Treatment of - Latin America; Indians - Social conditions; Indians - Government relations
• Soggetto geografico: Latin America Ethnic relations; Latin America Politics and government
• Altri autori: StonichSusan C
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- ENDANGERED PEOPLES of Latin America -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Introduction -- LATIN AMERICA'S SHARED PROBLEMS -- Economic Growth Along with Increasing Unemployment and Continuing Poverty -- Rural and Urban Poverty -- Environment and Health -- Hunger and Food Security -- Environmental Degradation -- Environment and Indigenous Peoples -- THREATS AND RESPONSES -- NOTES -- MEXICANS -- Chapter 1 The Mayans of Central Quintana Roo -- CULTURAL OVERVIEW -- The People -- The Setting -- Traditional Subsistence Strategies -- Social and Political Organization -- Religion and World View -- THREATS TO SURVIVAL -- RESPONSE: STRUGGLES TO SURVIVE CULTURALLY -- FOOD FOR THOUGHT -- Questions -- NOTES -- RESOURCE GUIDE -- Published Literature -- Videos and Films -- WWW Sites -- Organizations -- Chapter 2 The Rural People of Mexico's Northwest Coast -- CULTURAL OVERVIEW -- The People -- The Setting -- Traditional Subsistence Strategies -- Fishing -- Organization of Production -- Farming -- Aquaculture and Other Sources of Income -- Social and Political Organization -- Religion and World View -- THREATS TO SURVIVAL -- RESPONSE: STRUGGLES TO SURVIVE CULTURALLY -- Household and Community Levels -- Environmental Awareness -- FOOD FOR THOUGHT -- Questions -- NOTES -- RESOURCE GUIDE -- Published Literature -- Videos -- WWW Sites -- Chapter 3 Villagers at the Edge of Mexico City -- CULTURAL OVERVIEW -- The People -- The Setting -- Traditional Subsistence Strategies -- Social and Political Organization -- Religion and World View -- THREATS TO SURVIVAL -- RESPONSE: STRUGGLES TO SURVIVE CULTURALLY -- FOOD FOR THOUGHT -- Questions -- NOTES -- RESOURCE GUIDE -- Published Literature -- WWW Sites -- CENTRAL AMERICANS -- Chapter 4 Artisanal Fisherfolk of the Gulf of Fonseca -- CULTURAL OVERVIEW -- The People -- The Setting -- Traditional Subsistence Strategies. ; Social and Political Organization -- Religion and World View -- THREATS TO SURVIVAL -- Recent Events and Conditions -- Expansion of the Honduran Shrimp Industry -- Shrimp Farms Are Aquatic Feedlots -- Environmental and Social Problems Associated with Shrimp Farming -- RESPONSE: STRUGGLES TO SURVIVE CULTURALLY -- The Evolution of Organized Resistance -- The Global Context -- The Bioregional Context -- The National Context -- FOOD FOR THOUGHT -- Questions -- NOTES -- RESOURCE GUIDE -- Published Literature -- WWW Sites -- Chapter 5 The English-Speaking Bay Islanders -- CULTURAL OVERVIEW -- The People -- The Setting -- Traditional Subsistence Activities -- Social and Political Organization -- Religion and World View -- THREATS TO SURVIVAL -- RESPONSE: STRUGGLES TO SURVIVE CULTURALLY -- FOOD FOR THOUGHT -- Questions -- NOTES -- RESOURCE GUIDE -- Published Literature -- WWW Sites -- Chapter 6 The Miskito of Honduras and Nicaragua -- CULTURAL OVERVIEW -- The People -- The Setting -- Traditional Subsistence Strategies -- Social and Political Organization -- Religion and World View -- THREATS TO SURVIVAL -- Dangers of Lobster Work -- Natural Resource Needs and Legal Protection -- Population Growth, Traditional Agriculture, and Conservation -- RESPONSE: STRUGGLES TO SURVIVE CULTURALLY -- FOOD FOR THOUGHT -- Questions -- NOTES -- RESOURCE GUIDE -- Published Literature -- Videos and Films -- WWW Sites -- Chapter 7 Indigenous and Ladino Peoples of the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras -- CULTURAL OVERVIEW -- The People -- Miskito -- Pech -- Garifuna -- Ladinos -- The Setting -- THREATS TO SURVIVAL -- RESPONSE: STRUGGLES TO SUSTAIN CULTURAL SURVIVAL -- Participatory Mapping and Zoning -- FOOD FOR THOUGHT -- Questions -- NOTES -- RESOURCE GUIDE -- Published Literature -- WWW Sites -- Chapter 8 The Ngóbe of Western Panama -- CULTURAL OVERVIEW -- The People. ; The Setting -- Traditional Subsistence Strategies -- Social and Political Organization -- Religion and World View -- THREATS TO SURVIVAL -- Demographic Trends -- Current Events and Conditions -- Environmental Crisis -- Sociocultural Crisis -- RESPONSE: STRUGGLES TO SURVIVE CULTURALLY -- Individual Responses -- Agricultural Intensification and Production for Markets -- Seasonal Wage Labor Migration in Panama and Costa Rica -- Permanent Emigration -- Group Responses: Political Organization -- FOOD FOR THOUGHT -- Questions -- NOTES -- RESOURCE GUIDE -- Published Literature -- WWW Sites -- Organizations -- Chapter 9 The Kuna of Panama -- CULTURAL OVERVIEW -- The People -- The Setting -- Traditional Subsistence Strategies -- Social and Political Organization -- Religion and World View -- THREATS TO SURVIVAL -- Intrusions and Invasions -- Tourism -- Government Threats to Kuna Yala -- RESPONSE: STRUGGLES TO SURVIVE CULTURALLY -- The Mola Cooperative -- The PEMASKY Project -- The General Congress as Defender of Kuna Yala -- FOOD FOR THOUGHT -- Questions -- NOTES -- RESOURCE GUIDE -- Published Literature -- Film -- WWW Sites -- Chapter 10 The Tz'utujil Maya of Guatemala -- CULTURAL OVERVIEW -- The People -- The Setting -- Traditional Subsistence Strategies -- Social and Political Organization -- Religion and World View -- THREATS TO SURVIVAL -- Demographic Trends -- Heritage of Conquest -- Current Events and Conditions -- Environmental Crisis -- Sociocultural Crisis -- RESPONSE: STRUGGLES TO SURVIVE CULTURALLY -- Economic Strains and Strengths -- Cultural Revitalization -- Tz'utujil Developments -- FOOD FOR THOUGHT -- Questions -- NOTES -- RESOURCE GUIDE -- Published Literature -- Videos and Films -- WWW Sites -- Organizations -- SOUTH AMERICANS -- Chapter 11 The Awa of Ecuador -- CULTURAL OVERVIEW -- The People -- The Setting. ; Traditional Subsistence Strategies -- Social and Political Organization -- Religion and World View -- THREATS TO SURVIVAL -- RESPONSE: STRUGGLES TO SURVIVE CULTURALLY -- FOOD FOR THOUGHT -- Questions -- NOTES -- RESOURCE GUIDE -- Published Literature -- Videos and Films -- WWW Sites -- Chapter 12 The Otavaleños of the Ecuadorian Highlands -- CULTURAL OVERVIEW -- The People -- The Setting -- Traditional Subsistence Strategies -- Social and Political Organization -- Religion and World View -- THREATS TO SURVIVAL -- Demographic Trends and Environmental Problems -- Economic Cycles and Indigenous Peoples -- The Case of Belt Weaving, 1978-1998 -- RESPONSE: STRUGGLES TO SURVIVE CULTURALLY -- Political Strategies -- Economic Strategies -- Social Strategies -- FOOD FOR THOUGHT -- Questions -- NOTES -- RESOURCE GUIDE -- Published Literature -- Video -- WWW Sites -- Organizations -- Chapter 13 The Quechua of the Peruvian Andes -- CULTURAL OVERVIEW -- The People -- The Setting -- Traditional Subsistence Strategies -- Social and Political Organization -- Religion and World View -- THREATS TO SURVIVAL -- Population Growth, Water Politics, and the Peruvian State -- The Majes Conflict -- RESPONSE: STRUGGLES TO SURVIVE CULTURALLY -- Peasant Resistance -- Land Recovery -- FOOD FOR THOUGHT -- Questions -- NOTES -- RESOURCE GUIDE -- Published Literature -- Videos and Films -- WWW Sites -- Glossary -- Index -- About the Contributors -- Recent Titles in The Greenwood Press "Endangered Peoples of the World" Series.
• Sommario/riassunto: Latin America comprises varied biophysical environments and diverse populations living in widely disparate economic circumstances. Endangered Peoples of Latin America: Struggles to Survive and Thrive includes peoples hit hardest by the current globalization trend. Each chapter profiles a specific people or peoples with a cultural overview of their history, subsistence strategies, social and political organization, and religion and world view; threats to their survival; and responses to these threats. A section entitled Food for Thought provides questions that encourage a personal engagement with the experiences of these peoples, and a resource guide suggests further reading and lists films and videos and pertinent organizations and web sites. As the curriculum expands to include more multicultural and indigenous peoples, this unique volume will be valuable to both students and teachers.
• Titolo autorizzato: Endangered peoples of Latin America
• ISBN: 9798400645853; 9786610637348; 9781280637346; 128063734X; 9780313016547; 0313016542
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910961597703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Greenwood Press "Endangered peoples of the world" series.