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Cultural Expression and Grassroots Development : Cases for Latin America and the Caribbean /

Cultural Expression and Grassroots Development : Cases for Latin America and the Caribbean / ed. by Charles David Kleymeyer. - 1 online resource (293 p.)

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

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


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9781555874612 9781685858537

10.1515/9781685858537 doi


POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American.