Jacques M. Chevalier

Dr. Jacques M. Chevalier, Professor  of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University, Ottawa, has been part of the IDRC (International Development Research Centre) co-operative research project on sustainable development in the Sierra de Santa Marta, Mexico, since 1990. His scholarly interests have also included economics and kinship in native Latin America and semiotics as applied to a variety of disciplines, most recently to scriptural mythology. Among his publications are Civilization and the Stolen Gift: Capital, Kin, and Cult in Eastern Peru (Toronto University Press, 1982) and Semiotics, Romanticism and the Scriptures (Mouton de Gruyter, 1990).

 

Books by Jacques M. Chevalier

A Land Without Gods

Process Theory, Maldevelopment and the Mexican Nahuas

Daniel Buckles, Jacques M. Chevalier

”A model of comprehensive, synthetic anthropology… Historically deep, ecologically subtle and symbolically rich while never slighting the key role of political economy.” —James C. Scott, Eugene Meyer Professor of POlitical Science, Yale University ”A masterpiece — anthropology at its best. While offering new insights into Nahua cosmology, this book speaks to critical issues of native production systems and rainforest environment subjected to predatory forces… (more information)