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Beschreibung
Inspired by decades of archaeological research on the ancestral Maya, Maya Wisdom and the Survival of Our Planet provides a practical roadmap on how to sustainably address climate change and environmental degradation. The author shows how insights of the Maya--past and present--are vital for the survival of our planet and calls for collaborating with rather than dominating the nonhuman world.
Inspired by decades of archaeological research on the ancestral Maya, Maya Wisdom and the Survival of Our Planet provides a practical roadmap on how to sustainably address climate change and environmental degradation. The author shows how insights of the Maya--past and present--are vital for the survival of our planet and calls for collaborating with rather than dominating the nonhuman world.
Über den Autor
Lisa J. Lucero is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She has been conducting archaeology in Belize for over 35 years and is the author of Water and Ritual: The Rise and Fall of Classic Maya Rulers and co-author of If the Past Teaches, What Does the Future Learn? and Changing the Atmosphere: Anthropology and Climate Change.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Preface

  • Acknowledgments--Thirty-Five Years' Worth

  • Introduction

  • 1. Setting the Stage: Then and Now

  • 2. The Maya

  • 3. Chahk, The Capricious Rain God

  • 4. The Maya Inclusive Worldview

  • 5. Relations with the Three Realms

  • 6. The Maize People

  • 7. House and Cosmos

  • 8. Water Lily Kings

  • 9. Yax Cities

  • 10. The Survival of Our Planet

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Jahrhundert: Vor- & Frühgeschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
ISBN-13: 9780197765708
ISBN-10: 019776570X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Lucero, Lisa J.
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
OUP USA
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen: 25
Maße: 213 x 144 x 28 mm
Von/Mit: Lisa J. Lucero
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.04.2025
Gewicht: 0,386 kg
Artikel-ID: 131027187

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