Guía para la identificación de los mamíferos de México

Guía para la identificación de los mamíferos de México
Author: Sergio Ticul Álvarez-Castañeda
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 523
Release: 2017-03-28
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1421422107

Fully updated and revised, this is the bestselling comprehensive bilingual identification guide to Mexico’s diverse mammalian fauna. A remarkable achievement that took over 30 years to construct, Keys for Identifying Mexican Mammals is the only complete identification guide to Mexico’s mammalian fauna. Fully updated and revised, this bestselling book follows a bilingual arrangement, with identical information presented in Spanish and English on facing pages. The dichotomous presentation is both easy to follow and flawlessly compiled, including updated and expanded material that surpasses any previously available resource. Hundreds of diagnostic images are dispersed throughout the book, many showing minute details that differentiate one species from another, and introductory materials carefully explain the use of diagnostic features. The heart of the book, though, is the keys themselves, which cover every taxa—from artiodactyls and carnivores to primates and rodents—while allowing confident identification at the species level for both field and museum use. The book closes with appendices that cover preparation of specimens, a glossary, and a bibliography. Anyone with an interest in the mammalian fauna of Mexico, or mammals in general, will find this one-of-a-kind book an indispensable reference to Mexico’s rich diversity of wildlife.

Resistance in an Amazonian Community

Resistance in an Amazonian Community
Author: Lawrence Ziegler-Otero
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2006-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781845453060

Like many other indigenous groups, the Huaorani of eastern Ecuador are facing many challenges as they attempt to confront the globalization of capitalism in the 21st century. In 1991, they formed a political organization as a direct response to the growing threat to Huaorani territory posed by oil exploitation, colonization, and other pressures. The author explores the structures and practices of the organization, as well as the contradictions created by the imposition of an alien and hierarchical organizational form on a traditionally egalitarian society. This study has broad implications for those who work toward "cultural survival" or try to "save the rainforest."

From Tribal Village to Global Village

From Tribal Village to Global Village
Author: Alison Brysk
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2000
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780804734592

This book examines the rise of human rights movements in five Latin American countries—Ecuador, Mexico, Brazil, Nicaragua, and Bolivia—among the hemisphere's most isolated and powerless people, Latin American Indians. It describes the impact of the Indian rights movement on world politics, from reforming the United Nations to evicting foreign oil companies, and analyzes the impact of these human rights experiences for all of Latin America's indigenous citizens and native people throughout the world.

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Total Pages: 146
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Crude Chronicles

Crude Chronicles
Author: Suzana Sawyer
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2004-06-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822332725

DIVEthnographic study of indigenous opposition to processes of economic globalization, arguing that neoliberal economic reforms both provoked a crisis of governance and created the conditions for a disruptive indigenous movement in Ecuador./div