ISBN:
9781405157056
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9781405157063
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0470712953
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9780470712955
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 312 p)
,
ill., maps
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Antipode book series
Parallel Title:
Print version Decolonizing Development : Colonial Power and the Maya
DDC:
305.897/427072824
Keywords:
Mayas Agriculture
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Mayas Economic conditions
;
Mayas Social conditions
;
Toledo District (Belize) Economic conditions
;
Toledo District (Belize) Social conditions
;
Toledo District (Belize) Colonial influence
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
Abstract:
Winner of the 2010 James M. Blaut Award in recognition of innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology (Honors of the CAPE specialty group (Cultural and Political Ecology)) Decolonizing Development investigates the ways colonialism shaped the modern world by analyzing the relationship between colonialism and development as forms of power.Based on novel interpretations of postcolonial and Marxist theory and applied to original research dataAmply supplemented with maps and illustrationsAn intriguing and invaluable resource for scholars of postcolonialism, development, geography, and
Description / Table of Contents:
Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Capitalism qua Development; Part I Colonizing the Maya; 1 Unsettling the Colonial Geographies of Southern Belize; 2 The Matter of the Maya Farm System; 3 An Archaeology of Mayanism; Part II Aporias of Development; 4 From Colonial to Development Knowledge: Charles Wright and the Battles over the Columbia River Forest; 5 Settling: Fieldwork in the Ruins of Development; 6 Finishing the Critique of Cultural Ecology: Reading the Maya Atlas; Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
BibliographyIndex
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-308) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1002/9780470712955
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470712955
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470712955
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470712955
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http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
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