Plants and Animals in the Life of the Kuna (LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series)
by Jorge Ventocilla, Heraclio Herrera, Valerio N??ez
Book Summary Information
Author: Heraclio Herrera, Jorge Ventocilla, Valerio N??ezForeword: James Howe
Editor: Hans Roeder
Translator: Elisabeth King
Edition: Paperback
Audio: Spanish (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1995
ISBN: 029278726X
Number of pages: 168
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Book Reviews of Plants and Animals in the Life of the Kuna (LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series)
Book Review: Highly recommended
Summary: 5 Stars
What should books about indigenous peoples strive for - acceptance among academics or the native peoples themselves? If there is a way to strike a compromise, the authors of Plants and Animals in the Life of the Kuna, have found a way to bridge the gap.This book focuses on Panama's indigenous Kuna people. The work, an environmental and artistic mosaic, is a collaboration among two Kuna biologists and a Panamanian colleague. Illustrations by Kuna artists Ologuagdi and Enrique Tejada provide a clear portal for curious outsiders.
The authors document a variety of factors that contribute to environmental degradation, including abuses of the market economy, population growth, and careless practices. Being native to a region does not imply omnipotence.
"The Kuna, like the indigenous peoples of North America who enthusiastically killed beaver so that Europeans could wear tall hats, have been drawn into a system vastly larger and more powerful than their own society," writes James Howe in the book's forward. "If they are to survive as a people into the next century, they must reconcile the subsistence and market economies as well as protect the borers of their small enclave."
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