The Forest of the Lacandon Maya An Ethnobotanical Guide /

• Main Author: Cook, Suzanne (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Plant biochemistry.; Plant science.; Botany.; Plant anatomy.; Plant development.; Plant genetics.; Plant physiology.; Life Sciences.; Plant Sciences.; Plant Biochemistry.; Plant Anatomy/Development.; Plant Physiology.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.

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 Ma...

Table of Contents:

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