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Latin America in transition : the influence of culture on ecology, power, and diversity / Sheldon Smith.
Van Pelt Library GN397.7.L38 S65 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Sheldon, 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Applied anthropology--Latin America.
- Applied anthropology.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- Latin America--Economic conditions.
- Latin America.
- Economic conditions.
- Latin America--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on--Latin America.
- Nature.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 475 pages : maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2003]
- Contents:
- Maps of Latin America
- Chapter 1 The Influence of Culture on Ecology, Power, and Diversity 1
- Chapter 2 Prehistoric Mesoamerica and the Andes 31
- Chapter 3 Conquest and Colonialism: Cultures of Power 59
- Chapter 4 Political Cultures of the Core: Export Economics and State Capitalism 91
- Chapter 5 Culture as Diversity 141
- Chapter 6 Culture as Ecology 191
- Chapter 7 Globalization and the Collapse of State Capitalism in Mexico 225
- Chapter 8 Central America and the Caribbean 257
- Chapter 9 Caribbean/Andean North 317
- Chapter 10 The Andean Highlands 355
- Chapter 11 The Southern Cone and Tropical East 395.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [443]-462) and index.
- ISBN:
- 076182460X
- 0761824618
- OCLC:
- 50809233
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