The Forest Of The Lacandon Maya: An Ethnobotanical Guide
by Suzanne Cook /
2016 / English / PDF
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The Forest of the Lacandon Maya: An Ethnobotanical Guide
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.
,
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
InThe Forest of the Lacandon Maya: An Ethnobotanical
Guide
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.
, 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.