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A Land Without Gods: Power and Destruction in the Mexican Tropics
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A Land Without Gods: Power and Destruction in the Mexican Tropics Paperback - 1995

by Daniel Buckles; Jacques M. Chevalier

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In this theoretically innovative study of maldevelopment and power relations among the Nahuas of southern Veracruz, Chevalier and Buckles explore the impact of Mexico's cattle ranching and petrochemical industries on milpa agriculture and rainforest environment. They also examine how national politics and economics affect native patterns of patrimonial culture and social organization. In the concluding chapter, an ascetic worldview illustrated through corn god mythology points to meaningful ways of countering current trends of social and ecological impoverishment.

This major work of scholarship tackles key issues in ecology and development, theories of the state, gender analysis and symbolic anthropology. Against rigid conceptions of capitalism and native society, the authors apply their own theory of process to the orderly and contradictory features of social history. Established ways of doing things - a mode of government, a way of livelihood, a kinship and narrative tradition - are shown to reflect the imposition of a ruling order, an unequal distribution of the proceeds of society, and the confrontation of classes and parties, genders and age-groups, spirits and humans struggling for power.

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  • Title A Land Without Gods: Power and Destruction in the Mexican Tropics
  • Author Daniel Buckles; Jacques M. Chevalier
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Zed Books, London
  • Publication date 1995
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781856493260 / 1856493261
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.48 x 1.55 in (21.59 x 13.92 x 3.94 cm)
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 95021721
  • Dewey Decimal Code 330.972

About the author

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.
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.

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