The Forest of the Lacandon Maya
An Ethnobotanical Guide
Seiten
2018
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Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4939-7937-0 (ISBN)
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4939-7937-0 (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 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.
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 Cook University of Victoria, Department of Linguistics, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Introduction.- Language.- The Lacandon Rainforest.- The Role of Plants in Traditional Lacandon Culture.- Botanical Inventory.- Ethnographic Inventory.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.08.2018 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 561 Illustrations, color; 38 Illustrations, black and white; XXVII, 379 p. 599 illus., 561 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 210 x 279 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Biochemie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie | |
| Schlagworte | Ecology • ethnobiology • ethnobotany • Lacandon • Plant sciences • Traditional Ecological Knowledge |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4939-7937-X / 149397937X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4939-7937-0 / 9781493979370 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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