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Author: Daniel Buckles ,
Jacques M Chevalier
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint: Zed Books Ltd
Edition: illustrated edition
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.540kg
ISBN: 9781856493260
ISBN 10: 1856493261
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 01 August 1995
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
A Masterpiece * anthropology at its best. While offering new insights into Nahua cosmology, this book speaks to critical issues of native production systems and rainforest environment subjected to predatory forces of the state and the market economy. A must for anyone interested in Mexican native people and rural development.' * A model of comprehensive, synthetic anthropology... Historically deep, ecologically subtle and symbolically rich while never slighting the key role of political economy. * James C Scott, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science, Yale University *
'A model of comprehensive, synthetic anthropology... Historically deep, ecologically subtle and symbolically rich while never slighting the key role of political economy'. - James C Scott, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science, Yale University 'A Masterpiece - anthropology at its best. While offering new insights into Nahua cosmology, this book speaks to critical issues of native production systems and rainforest environment subjected to predatory forces of the state and the market economy. A must for anyone interested in Mexican native people and rural development.' - Luisa Pare, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
'A model of comprehensive, synthetic anthropology... Historically deep, ecologically subtle and symbolically rich while never slighting the key role of political economy'. - James C Scott, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science, Yale University 'A Masterpiece - anthropology at its best. While offering new insights into Nahua cosmology, this book speaks to critical issues of native production systems and rainforest environment subjected to predatory forces of the state and the market economy. A must for anyone interested in Mexican native people and rural development.' - Luisa Pare, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Author Information
Jacques M Chevalier is a Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University, Ottawa. Daniel Buckles is an anthropologist with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre, Mexico City.
