Watching Lacandon Maya Lives

AvR. Jon McGee

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Although romanticized as the last of the ancient Maya living isolated in the forest, several generations of the Lacandon Maya have had their lives shaped by the international oil economy, tourism, and political unrest.Watching Lacandon Maya Lives is an examination of dramatic cultural changes in a Maya rainforest farming community over the last forty years, including changes to their families, industries, religion, health and healing practices, and gender roles. The book contains several discussions of anthropological theory in accessible, jargon-free language, including how the use of different theoretical perspectives impacts an ethnographer’s fieldwork experience. While relating his own mishaps, experiences of community strife, and conflicts, Jon McGee encourages students to shed the romantic veil through which ethnographies are usually viewed and think more deeply about how events in our own lives influence how we understand the behavior of people around us.New to the Second Edition:Revised Introduction incorporates the author’s recent work with the Lacandon and discussions of anthropological writing, culture theory, and how events in the author’s personal life have changed his approach to anthropological fieldwork.Revised chapter, “Finding an Income in the Lacandon Jungle” focuses on families who have shifted from a subsistence farming economy to earning revenue by renting facilities to tourists, owning small community stores, working as hired labor for archaeologists, or make use of a variety of government rural aid programs created in the last two decades (Chapter 5).New chapter, “Forty Years Among the Lacandon: Some Lessons Learned,” discusses what the author’s 40 years of experience as an ethnographer has taught him about the discipline of anthropology and the concept of culture (Chapter 8)

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-02-22
Mått:154 x 224 x 14 mm
Vikt:376 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:230
Upplaga:2
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781538126172

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Reece Jon McGee is a professor of Anthropology at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. He is the author of numerous works on the Lacandon including Life, Ritual and Religion Among the Lacandon Maya and is also the coauthor of the texts Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History (Rowman and Littlefield), Sacred Realms: Essays in Religious Practices, Beliefs and Culture (Oxford University Press), and Introduction to Cultural Anthropology: An Interactive Approach (National Social Science Press). McGee is also the managing editor for Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia (Sage Publishing Company).

Recensioner i media

Watching Lacandon Maya Lives presents a pithy account of the northern Lacandones written from the heart of a scholar who demystifies truths of a hitherto enigmatic people, candidly and unapologetically inserting himself into the narrative. As such, the book should appeal to the general reader and anyone else who is captivated by the Mayans past and present.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionChapter One: The Myth of Lacandon Origins. Romantic ImagesArchaeological, Linguistic, and Historical Sources.Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries: Chol-LacandonEighteenth Century: Yucatec LacandonLacandon in the Nineteenth CenturyLacandon in the Twentieth CenturyLacandon 1980-2015Chapter Two: Reconstructing the Historical Lacandon: Who Is Lacandon? What Does Traditional Lacandon Mean?Lacandon Life from 1790-1903 Men and Women’s Work Religion Marriage and Household LifeSelling Lacandon Religion Two Case Studies and Concluding Thoughts So, How Can I Write About “the Lacandon”?Chapter 3: Watching Life in a Lacandon CommunityAn Overview of Women, Men, and Work. Women’s WorkMen's WorkFamily ExamplesChan K?in Viejo and his HouseholdKoh III and Koh IV, Summer1985 Child Birth, and Infant MortalityThe Death of NukChapter 4: 1970-2020, Five Decades of Change Government, Oil and Immigration, an OverviewFamily Relations, Work, and Historic Lacandon HorticultureRoads, Bows and Arrows, and TourismAdapting Agricultural to Tourism: Comparing Two Communities Men, tourism, and Agriculture in Nahá. Agriculture and Tourism in Lacanha. Women, Tourism, and Work“Traditional” women Women in households oriented to tourismWidowsChapter 5: Finding an Income in the Lacandon JungleProviding Food and Lodging for VisitorsHousehold-Level Entrepreneurial ActivitiesArchaeology in MensäbäkWorking for CONANPFour Families in MensäbäkEconomic and Cultural ChangesShifting to a Money-Based Economy and Culture ChangeChanging diet and healthChanging household-based reciprocityChanging statusChanging household demographicsGrowing Up in a Changing World: The Cases of K?in and Chan K?in QuintoChapter 6: Decline of Non-Christian ReligionCosmologyRitual Places: Classic Period RuinsCaves and Rock SheltersGod HousesRitual ImplementsTypes of OfferingsEdible OfferingsRitual and AgricultureHealing and Ritual The End of the WorldConclusions: The End of Non-Christian Religion Chapter 7: Changing Healing PracticesLacandon Categories of SicknessCuring Through PrayerTherapeutic IncantationsCuring StringsMedicinal PlantsDecline of Healing RitualsChapter Eight: Forty Years Among the Lacandon: Some Lessons Learned What is Lacandon Culture? What People Say is Different from What They DoMarriage, Fatherhood, and McGee’s Position in the CommunityThe Fire: 6/9/99Glossary References Cited