By Suzanne Cook
ISBN-10: 146149110X
ISBN-13: 9781461491101
The woodland of the Lacandon Maya: An Ethnobotanical Guide, with lively hyperlinks to audio-video recordings, serves as a complete consultant to the botanical history of the northern Lacandones. Numbering fewer than three hundred males, girls, and kids, this neighborhood is the main culturally conservative of the Mayan teams. safe by means of their adverse setting, over many centuries they keep autonomy from the surface forces of church and country, whereas they proceed to attract at the wooded area for religious idea and sustenance.
In The wooded area of the Lacandon Maya: An Ethnobotanical Guide, linguist Suzanne Cook presents a bilingual Lacandon-English ethnobotanical advisor to greater than 450 vegetation in a tripartite association: a botanical stock within which major entries are headed by means of Lacandon names via universal English and botanical names, and including plant descriptions and makes use of; an ethnographic stock, which expands the descriptions given within the botanical stock, delivering the socio-historical, nutritional, mythological, and religious importance of so much crops; and chapters that debate the suitable cultural functions of the crops in additional aspect offer an outline of the area’s geography, and provides an ethnographic assessment of the Lacandones. lively hyperlinks through the textual content to unique audio-video recordings reveal the use and education of the main major plants.
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