Indigenous Cultures and Sustainable Development in Latin America

Indigenous Cultures and Sustainable Development in Latin America -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Transmodernity and Neoliberal Multiculturalism -- Outline of the Book -- Interpreting Indigenous Culture -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Classic Ideas of Modernity, Culture, and Progress -- Classical Political Economy -- Adam Smith -- David Ricardo -- John Stuart Mill -- Neoclassical Economics -- The Marginalists -- The Keynesian Challenge -- The Austrian School -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Culture in Critical and Sociological Thought -- Marxian Political Economy -- Marxian Theories of Imperialism -- Gramsci -- Sociological Approaches -- Emile Durkheim -- Max Weber -- Veblen and the Institutional Economists -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Culture in Development Theory -- Neoclassical Approaches -- Modernization Theory -- New Classical Economics and the Washington Consensus -- New Institutional Economics -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Culture in Critical Development Theory -- Critical Political Economy -- The Structuralist School -- Dependency Theory -- Cultural Approaches -- Postcolonialism -- Post-Development -- Cultural Political Economy -- Culture and Sustainable Development -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Origins of a Maya Sustainable Development Movement -- Guatemalan History -- Early Colonialism -- Exclusive Nationalism -- Ten Years of Spring -- The Violence -- Postwar and Peace Negotiations -- Global Considerations -- Rights Discourse -- Marxism and Dependency Theory -- Global Indigenous Movement -- The Post-Washington Consensus -- Environmentalism -- Discourse on Gender Equality -- Maya Cosmovision -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: The Maya Idea of Culturally Sustainable Development -- Human, Nature, Culture -- Participation, Democracy, Development.