Description
Product ID: | 9781538126172 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Watching Lacandon Maya Lives |
Authors: | Author: R. Jon, Texas State University McGee |
Page Count: | 230 |
Subjects: | Gender studies: women and girls, Gender studies: women, Indigenous peoples, Social and cultural anthropology, Indigenous peoples, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Mexico |
Description: | In Watching Lacandon Maya Lives, the author follows three generations of one Lacandon Maya family. Readers track the subjects' lives as they shift through events such as marriage, parenthood, and religious conversion, all set against a backdrop of increased tourism, road construction, and the murders of two people in the community. In Watching Lacandon Maya Lives, the author follows three generations of one Lacandon Maya family. Readers track the subjects'' lives as they shift through events such as marriage, parenthood, and religious conversion, all set against a backdrop of increased tourism, road construction, and the murders of two people in the community. This book encompasses both ethnography and a critique of ethnographic writing. At one level, the book is about social, agricultural, technological, and religious changes that have occurred in a Lacandon Maya community in Mexico. At a second level, the book is a critique of those who invented a Utopian picture of a "traditional" Lacandon past that never really existed. For cultural anthropologists, or anyone interested in learning more about this Mayan culture. |
Imprint Name: | Rowman & Littlefield |
Publisher Name: | Rowman & Littlefield |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-02-22 |