Abstract
Today revolutionary deeds and ideas are affecting much of the world. Hence changes come to existing cultures and ways of li fe, transformations of special consequence because they also bring fundamental modifications in man's relationship to his environment. Assuming these trends are inevitable, current mosaics of land and life are destined to yield to new forces. And, just possibly, the most dramatic chapters of man ' s d evelopment are presently being recorded with the revolutionary modification of more traditional societies. What man does with the land he occupies largely depends on his cultural view of its use. l Human activities modify the original nature of the land and give it the cultural stamp of the society living on it. In this fashion culturallandscapes (manscapes?) are produced. Yet, as the natural order of things is changed so is the cultural since time may bring further landscape modifications with the development of the occupying peoples or their displacement by new human groups.2 Regardless of the culture, though, one vehicle man employs to transform his environment is his economy-industry is an especially dynamic form of this vehicle
Recommended Citation
Bechto, Bruce E.
(1970)
"GUATEMALA AND THEHOMOGENIZING GLOBE:A VIGNETTE ONTECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS,"
The Geographical Bulletin: Vol. 1:
Iss.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/thegeographicalbulletin/vol1/iss1/4