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Maya wisdom and the survival of our planet / Lisa J. Lucero.
Van Pelt Library F1435.3.E73 L84 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lucero, Lisa Joyce, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mayas--Ethnobiology--Belize.
- Mayas.
- Maya philosophy--Belize.
- Maya philosophy.
- Mayas--Belize--Social life and customs.
- Traditional ecological knowledge--Belize.
- Traditional ecological knowledge.
- Climate change mitigation--Belize.
- Climate change mitigation.
- Environmental archaeology--Belize.
- Environmental archaeology.
- Belize--Antiquities.
- Belize.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 239 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- illustrations.
- maps.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Maya Wisdom and the Survival of Our Planet presents the Maya way of seeing and interacting with the world that embodies lessons and provides solutions to ensure a sustainable future of Earth. This book is based on over three decades of working with Maya associates in Belize, Central America on the ancestral Maya as an archaeologist and approaches the future through the lens of the Maya non-anthropocentric inclusive worldview. Ancestral Maya people worked with, not against, nature. Nor did they privilege humans at the expense of nonhumans. Their engagement with the tropical environment was expressed in a landscape of green cities, farmsteads, gardens, fields, forests, and sacred places. The Maya built green cities that drew people in through royal reservoirs, a system that lasted over 1,000 years in the southern lowlands (c. 300 BCE-900 CE). After taking the reader on a journey through Maya history, their tropical world, and how they lived in it and engaged with nonhumans through ceremonies, the book concludes with concrete solutions that bridge the past and present for the future. Conditions are not going to change but people can. Maya resilience is a testament for how to move forward, and this book provides a roadmap on how to do so"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Setting the stage : then and now
- The Maya
- Chahk, the capricious rain god
- The Maya inclusive worldview
- Relations with the three realms
- The maize people
- House and cosmos
- Water lily kings
- Yax cities
- The survival of our planet.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-225) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lucero, Lisa Joyce, 1962- Maya wisdom and the survival of our planet
- ISBN:
- 9780197765708
- 019776570X
- OCLC:
- 1453071354
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