Jacques M. Chevalier

did Ph D studies at Edinburgh

On faculty at Carleton University,Sociology and Anthropology (cross-appointment with the School of Comparative Literature) 520-2600 ext. 2599, http://www.carleton.ca/~jchevali/

SCHOLARLY WORK IN PROGRESS

Ills of Body and Land: Ethnoagriculture and Ethnomedicine in Native Mexico Co-authored book on indigenous knowledge systems involving agricultural and healing practices in Southern Veracruz, Mexico. Work virtually completed.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

LA RESERVA ESPECIAL DE LA BIOSFERA, SIERRA DE SANTA MARTA, VERACRUZ: DIAGNOSTICO Y PERSPECTIVA. With Luisa Paré et al, UNAM, Mexico, 1997.

This is one of many publications resulting from an IDRC-supported applied research project started in 1990 and entitled "Toward a Sustainable Development Strategy for the Sierra de los Tuxtlas, Mexico." The objective of this four year cooperative research involving the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Carleton University was to generate information and analyses needed to formulate a sustainable social and economic development strategy for the Sierra de los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico. In contrast to preservation strategies that seek to exclude or greatly restrict the utilization of living resources within particular areas, the research project promoted a resource-use strategy that addresses problems of poverty and inequality while also maintaining essential ecological processes and the sustainable utilization of species and eco-systems. The research project also sought to ensure that the regional population participated significantly in the formulation of alternative development strategies.

A LAND WITHOUT GODS: PROCESS THEORY, MALDEVELOPMENT AND THE MEXICAN NAHUAS,

Co-authored by J. Chevalier and Daniel Buckles, Zed Books and Fernwood Publishing, London and Halifax, 1995, 374 pp.

CIVILIZATION AND THE STOLEN GIFT: CAPITAL, KIN AND CULT IN EASTERN PERU.

University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1982, 467 pp. Preface by E. Laclau.

RECENT THESES

1999 Bénédicte Bucio, Ambivalences de la politisation d'un corporatisme social -- La Asamblea de Barrios de la ciudad de Mexico.

1999 Andres Sanchez, Allegories About Health and Sacrifice in Traditions of the Zoque-Popoluca.

1998 Mary-Lee Mulholland, Sensuous Politics: Salsa as Culture Critique.

1997 Mario Blaser. The Chamacoco endurance: global politics in the local village (Paraguay 1890s - 1990s).

1997 Jason Paiement, Participatory Research Methods for Consolidating Resource Management Associations in Support of Sustainable Rural Development in Mexico's Humid Tropics.

1996 Natasha Blanchet-Cohen, The Wayuu Women's Network: an indigenous women's movement bridging two societies; the dominant and the indigenous.

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