Cultural Expression and Grassroots Development : : Cases for Latin America and the Caribbean / / ed. by Charles David Kleymeyer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Breslin, Patrick,; Chapin, Mac,; Chumpi Kayap, Maria,; Garcia Salazar, Juan,; Goff, Brent,; Healy, Kevin,; Herrera, Xóchitl,; Jempékat, Miguel,; Kleymeyer, Charles David,; Lobo-Guerrero, Miguel,; Maybury-Lewis, David,; Moreno, Carlos,; Palmer, Paula R.,; Ricca, Caryl,; Wali, Alaka,; Zorn, Elayne,
• HerausgeberIn: Kleymeyer, Charles David,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (293 p.)

Presents an innovative, culture-based approach to grassroots development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• About the Contributors
• Foreword: Culture and Development
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• PART 1 OVERVIEW
• 1 The Uses and Functions of Cultural Expression in Grassroots Development
• PART 2 CULTURAL ACTION AS A STRATEGY IN GRASSROOTS DEVELOPMENT
• 2 Identity and Self-Respect
• 3 La Feria Educativa: A Wellspring of Ideas and Cultural Pride
• 4 Women's Theater in Jamaica
• 5 Recapturing the Old Ways: Traditional Knowledge and Western Science Among the Kuna Indians of Panama
• 6 Black Poetry of Coastal Ecuador
• 7 Self-History and Self-Identity in Talamanca
• 8 Reviving Crafts and Affirming Culture: From Grassroots Development to National Policy
• 9 Taquile's Homespun Tourism
• 10 Work and Tradition
• 11 Living with the Land: Ethnicity and Development in Chile
• 12 From Failure to Success: Tapping the Creative Energy of Sikuani Culture in Colombia
• PART 3 CONCLUSIONS
• 13 Cultural Expression and Grassroots Development
• Appendix: Cultural Expression Projects Supported by the Inter-American Foundation, 1973-1990
• Select Bibliography
• Index
• About the Book