Cultural Expression and Grassroots Development: Cases from Latin America and theCaribbean

		ISBN: 978-1-55587-499-5 $26.50
	1994/293 pages/LC: 93-30868

The approach seeks to retain a population's special cultural strengths and contributions while enabling them to achieve necessary changes in their social and economic conditions. Their "cultural energy"—a concept introduced in the book—is thus tapped into, and in turn drives further development efforts.

The authors provide illustrations from 215 cases in 30 countries, ranging from handicraft production, adult literacy centers, and community bread ovens, to collections of folktales and harvest chants, to reforestation and conservation efforts.

• Foreword—D. Maybury-Lewis.
• Introduction—C.D. Kleymeyer.
• OVERVIEW.
• The Uses and Functions of Cultural Expression in Grassroots Development—C.D. Kleymeyer.
• CULTURAL ACTION AS A STRATEGY IN GRASSROOTS DEVELOPMENT.
• Identity and Self-Respect—P. Breslin.
• La Feria Educativa: A Wellspring of Ideas and Cultural Pride—C.D. Kleymeyer and C. Moreno.
• Women's Theater in Jamaica—Sistren Theatre Collective.
• Recapturing the Old Ways: Traditional Knowledge and Western Science Among the Kuna Indians of Panama—M. Chapin.
• Black Poetry of Coastal Ecuador—J.G. Salazar.
• Self-History and Self-Identity in Talamanca—P.R. Palmer.
• Reviving Crafts and Affirming Culture:From Grassroots Development to National Policy—B. Goff.
• Taquile's Homespun Tourism—K. Healy and E. Zorn.
• Work and Tradition—M.C. Kayap, M. Jempékat, C. Moreno, and C.D. Kleymeyer.
• Living with the Land: Ethnicity and Development in Chile—A. Wali.
• From Failure to Success: Tapping the Creative Energy in Sikuani Culture in Colombia—X. Herrera and M. Lobo-Guerrero.
• CONCLUSIONS.
• Cultural Expression and Grassroots Development—C.D. Kleymeyer.