Fields of the Tzotzil : : The Ecological Bases of Tradition in Highland Chiapas / / George A. Collier.
Fields of the Tzotzil is the first study of social processes in contemporary highland Maya communities to encompass a regional view of the highlands of Chiapas as a system. In viewing tradition, not as a survival of traits, but as a dynamic process of adaptation by local systems to their placement i...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1975 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Texas Pan American Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- TABLES
- PREFACE
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Forms of Land Utilization
- 3. Land and the Family
- 4. Land Inheritance in Apas
- 5. Soil Erosion in Chamula
- 6. Marginality
- 7. Ethnicity
- 8. The Refuge-Region Hypothesis
- 9. National Indianism and Indian Nationalism
- 10. Conclusion
- Appendix: Methodology
- Bibliography
- Index