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Hach Winik : the Lacandon Maya of Chiapas, Southern Mexico

Title
Hach Winik : the Lacandon Maya of Chiapas, Southern Mexico / by Didier Boremanse.
Author
Boremanse, Didier, 1948-
Publication
Albany, N.Y. : Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, the University at Albany, New York : Distributed by University of Texas Press, 1998.

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State University of New York at Albany. Institute for Mesoamerican Studies.
Description
xxi, 177 pages : illustrations, maps; 28 cm.
Summary
  • Hach Winik may be the last comprehensive study of traditional Lacandon Maya society based on intensive ethnographic fieldwork. Long isolated, culturally conservative, and bearing a mystique of Mesoamerican "primitivism," the Lacandon now live on the brink of cultural disintegration. Their habitat is all but destroyed by lumbering and by the large-scale invasion of other Maya peoples in search of land. In the 1970s and 1980s, Dr.
  • Didier Boremanse collected cultural data and textual materials from two groups of Lacandon who still remained relatively isolated. Hach Winik describes and compares the cultural traditions of these two groups.
  • This book is an indispensable resource for scholars, Maya intellectuals, and lay people who are concerned with what the traditional Maya world can contribute both to our understanding of the Ancient Maya of the past and to the rapidly evolving pan-Maya ethnic consciousness of modern Mexico and Guatemala.
Series Statement
IMS monograph ; 11
Uniform Title
IMS monograph ; 11.
Subject
  • Lacandon Indians > Social life and customs
  • Mayas > Chiapas
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-177).
Contents
Foreword / Rodney Needham -- 1. A World on the Wane -- 2. The Settlement Pattern -- 3. The Cluster of Households -- 4. Conflicts and Social Control -- 5. The Life Cycle of the Individual -- 6. Residence and Marriage -- 7. The Kinship System -- 8. Conclusions -- App. A. Population Censuses -- App. B. Descriptions of a Few Household Clusters and Households -- App. C. Postmarital Residence of Certain Deities -- App. D. Lacandon Maya Kinship Terms -- App. E. Transfer of Women Through Marriage.
ISBN
094204116X
OCLC
ocm41362629
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries