Nawal Jaâ is a small town in Guatemala where a popular mode of water distribution is the community-based water organization (CBWO). This thesis will argue that a discourse of well-being rooted in the CBWO model as citizens of Nawal Jaâ participate in them propagates logic that evades any prior epidemiological or hydrological discourses, while neither settling into any other purely anthropological, biographical, or mythological discourses. Nine interviews were completed with twelve respondents taking part, which will be analyzed to show how competing discourses of global health and development and Kâicheâ Maya ways of being can both describe and yet fall short of the details these events of research present. Awareness of a new cultural logic model on well-being and its features will inform future endeavorsâ understandings of Nawal Jaâ as a site for itself a synthetic whole, without any prior global or local discourses or logics winning over others.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VANDERBILT/oai:VANDERBILTETD:etd-03242017-092007 |
| Date | 31 March 2017 |
| Creators | Hayes, Caleb Brown |
| Contributors | Edward Fischer, Nicolette Kostiw |
| Publisher | VANDERBILT |
| Source Sets | Vanderbilt University Theses |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-03242017-092007/ |
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