The Voice of Ix Chel: Fashioning Maya Tradition in the Belizean Rain Forest

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. About the Series vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. MAPPING OUT THE QUEST
6. In Search of the Rain Forest 1
7. RAIN FOREST ICONS
8. Fire in El Dorado, or Images of Tropical Nature and Their Practical Effects 41
9. Subterranean Techniques: Corporate Environmentalism, Oil Operations, and Social Injustice in the Ecuadorian Rain Forest 69
10. The Voice of Ix Chel: Fashioning Maya Tradition in the Belizean Rain Forest 101
11. RAIN FOREST AND JUNGLE
12. In Search of the Maya Forest 133
13. SPECTACLES OF WILDNESS
14. Bio-Ironies of the Fractured Forest: India’s Tiger Reserves 167
15. Weapons of the Wild: Strategic Uses of Violence and Wildness in the Rain Forests of Indonesian Borneo 204
16. The Viral Forest in Motion: Ebola, African Forests, and Emerging Cartographies of Environmental Danger 246
17. Afterword: The Ongoing Search 285
18. Contributors 305
19. Index 309