The author contends that for 250 years, roughly from the 1720s to the 1970s, the sociocultural system of Petén endured with remarkable continuity, not in spite of the changes in the hinterland region but, to an important degree, because of them.
| ||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
Review
"A masterful blend of historical, ecological, economic, and ethnic themes."—American Anthropologist
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
0 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
???,
By jasonc65 "jasonc65@comcast.net" (Wilmington, DE USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Forest Society: A Social History of Peten, Guatemala (University of Pennsylvania Press Ethnohistory Series) (Hardcover)
What would I know? I was assigned the book for an athropology course once taken. Got an easy A and yet I never took a single peak. Too many other textbooks to read, and for the same course. Too many notes. Too much popcorn information about vapid details about emics and etics, development and underdevelopment, colonialism and imperialism, which come to think of was benevolence compared to central planning and state capitalism. Too occupied with other interests. Anyway, from the way the teacher was going on about it, sounded like just another environmentalist, lefty whacko book blaming European and American colonialism for all the evils of the world and whining about deforestation. Propaganda forsan ad Sandinistas istos apta? Never met the Peten, so their valuation of things, how would I know?
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
Up to about 1970 the physical environment of Peten remained substantially the same as it was in 1697 when the Spanish conquered Tayasal, the last independent Maya stronghold in the region. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chicle collecting, chicle business, class chicle, chicle production, chicle contractors, tapping season, chicle industry, chicle camps, royal ranches, chicle trees, oro blanco, urban triangle, forest collectors, ooo quintals, crown ranches, fiscal linkages, wage labor opportunities, maize sales, tree tapping, upper sector, collecting season, extractive economy, nontimber forest products, status continuity, swidden cultivation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Andrés, San José, San Luis, British Honduras, Santa Ana, San Benito, Guatemala City, San Felipe, Santa Elena, San Martín, San Francisco, Santo Toribio, Alta Verapaz, United States, Guadalupe Sacluk, Ramo Criminal, Santa Cruz, Melchor de Mencos, San Joseños, Lake Petén Itzá, North American, San Andreños, War of the Castes, British Honduran, Central America New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Up to about 1970 the physical environment of Peten remained substantially the same as it was in 1697 when the Spanish conquered Tayasal, the last independent Maya stronghold in the region. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chicle collecting, chicle business, class chicle, chicle production, chicle contractors, tapping season, chicle industry, chicle camps, royal ranches, chicle trees, oro blanco, urban triangle, forest collectors, ooo quintals, crown ranches, fiscal linkages, wage labor opportunities, maize sales, tree tapping, upper sector, collecting season, extractive economy, nontimber forest products, status continuity, swidden cultivation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
San Andrés, San José, San Luis, British Honduras, Santa Ana, San Benito, Guatemala City, San Felipe, Santa Elena, San Martín, San Francisco, Santo Toribio, Alta Verapaz, United States, Guadalupe Sacluk, Ramo Criminal, Santa Cruz, Melchor de Mencos, San Joseños, Lake Petén Itzá, North American, San Andreños, War of the Castes, British Honduran, Central America New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 44
books:
See all 44 books this book cites
3
books
cite this book:
- Spaniards and Indians in Southeastern Mesoamerica: Essays on the History of Ethnic Relations (Latin American Studies) by Murdo J. MacLeod in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Classic Maya Collapse (School of American Research Advanced Sem) by T. Patrick Culbert in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Economic Development (9th Edition) by Michael P. Todaro in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Lowland Maya Postclassic by Arlen F. Chase in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Central America (Country Fact Files) by Edward Parker in Back Matter
See all 44 books this book cites
- Tapping the Green Market by Patricia Shanley in Back Matter
- The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Vol. 2: Mesoamerica, Part 2 by Richard E. W. Adams on page 389
- Research in Economic Anthropology, Volume 20 (Research in Economic Anthropology) by Barry L. Isaac on page 194
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
So You'd Like to...
Look for Similar Items by Category
- Books > History > Americas > Central America > Guatemala
- Books > History > Americas > Native American
- Books > History > Ancient > Mayan
- Books > History > World
- Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences
