The Forest of the Lacandon Maya

Beschreibung

Neuware -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 areäs 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.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 408 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

The Forest of the Lacandon Maya

Verlag

Springer US, Springer New York Mär 2016

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

146149110X

ISBN-13

9781461491101

Einband

Buch

Zustand

Neu

Abmessungen

285B x 215 H x 26 T Millimeter Breite: 285 mm, Höhe: 215 mm, Tiefe: 26 mm

Gewicht

1363 Gramm

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