The Forest of the Lacandon Maya (eBook)
XXVII, 379 Seiten
Springer US (Verlag)
978-1-4614-9111-8 (ISBN)
The Forest of the Lacandon Maya: An Ethnobotanical Guide, with active links to audio-video recordings, serves as a comprehensive guide to the botanical heritage of the northern Lacandones. Numbering fewer than 300 men, women, and children, this community is the most culturally conservative of the Mayan groups. Protected by their hostile environment, over many centuries they maintain autonomy from the outside forces of church and state, while they continue to draw on the forest for spiritual inspiration and sustenance.
In The Forest of the Lacandon Maya: An Ethnobotanical Guide, linguist Suzanne Cook presents a bilingual Lacandon-English ethnobotanical guide to more than 450 plants in a tripartite organization: a botanical inventory in which main entries are headed by Lacandon names followed by common English and botanical names, and which includes plant descriptions and uses; an ethnographic inventory, which expands the descriptions given in the botanical inventory, providing the socio-historical, dietary, mythological, and spiritual significance of most plants; and chapters that discuss the relevant cultural applications of the plants in more detail provide a description of the area's geography, and give an ethnographic overview of the Lacandones. Active links throughout the text to original audio-video recordings demonstrate the use and preparation of the most significant plants.
Suzanne Cook
University of Victoria, Department of Linguistics, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
The Forest of the Lacandon Maya: An Ethnobotanical Guide, with active links to audio-video recordings, serves as a comprehensive guide to the botanical heritage of the northern Lacandones. Numbering fewer than 300 men, women, and children, this community is the most culturally conservative of the Mayan groups. Protected by their hostile environment, over many centuries they maintain autonomy from the outside forces of church and state, while they continue to draw on the forest for spiritual inspiration and sustenance. In The Forest of the Lacandon Maya: An Ethnobotanical Guide, linguist Suzanne Cook presents a bilingual Lacandon-English ethnobotanical guide to more than 450 plants in a tripartite organization: a botanical inventory in which main entries are headed by Lacandon names followed by common English and botanical names, and which includes plant descriptions and uses; an ethnographic inventory, which expands the descriptions given inthe botanical inventory, providing the socio-historical, dietary, mythological, and spiritual significance of most plants; and chapters that discuss the relevant cultural applications of the plants in more detail provide a description of the area's geography, and give an ethnographic overview of the Lacandones. Active links throughout the text to original audio-video recordings demonstrate the use and preparation of the most significant plants.
Suzanne CookUniversity of Victoria, Department of Linguistics, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
1. INTRODUCTION1.1 The Lacandones1.2 Situation of Research1.3 Collection Methods1.4 Lacandon Consultants1.5 How to Read this Book1.6 Electronic Version1.7 Abbreviations 2. Language2.1 The Language System2.2 Previous Research2.3 Transcription Conventions Used in this Work 3. The Lacandon Rainforest3.1 Geography3.2 Climate3.3 Vegetation 4. THE ROLE OF PLANTS IN TRADITIONAL LACANDON CULTURE 4.1 Food4.2 Agriculture4.3 Housing4.4. Artefacts4.5 Crafts4.6 Clothing4.7 Medicine and curing4.8 Lacandon Plant Classification 5. Botanical Inventory 6. Ethnographic Inventory6.1 Agriculture6.2 Artefacts6.3 Clothing6.4 Deities6.5 Food6.6 Geography6.7 Housing6.8 Medical ConditionsBibliographyAppendix 1. Lacandon Plants Unidentified BotanicallyAppendix 2. General Botanical Terms in LacandonAppendix 3. SeasonsAppendix 4. WeatherAppendix 5. Botanical-Lacandon IndexAppendix 6. English-Lacandon IndexAppendix 7. Lacandon Texts
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.3.2016 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | XXVII, 379 p. 599 illus., 561 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik |
| Technik | |
| Schlagworte | Ecology • ethnobiology • ethnobotany • Lacandon • Plant sciences • Traditional Ecological Knowledge |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4614-9111-8 / 1461491118 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4614-9111-8 / 9781461491118 |
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