The forest of the Lacandon Maya an ethnobotanical guide Suzanne Cook

Object Details

Notes

Elecresource

Contents

Introduction -- Language -- The Lacandon Rainforest -- The Role of Plants in Traditional Lacandon Culture -- Botanical Inventory -- Ethnographic Inventory

Summary

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

Data Source

Smithsonian Libraries

Date

2016

Call number

F1219.3.E83 C66 2016 (Internet)

author

Cook, Suzanne

Restrictions & Rights

1-user

Type

Electronic resources

Electronic books

Physical description

1 online resource

Place

Latin America

Mexico

Lacandona Forest (Mexico)

Lacandona Forest

Topic

Lacandon Indians--Ethnic identity

HISTORY

Botany & plant sciences

Plant physiology

Record ID

siris_sil_1146194

Usage

CC0