{"product_id":"watching-lacandon-maya-lives-9781538126165","title":"Watching Lacandon Maya Lives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One: The Myth of Lacandon Origins. \u003c\/p\u003eRomantic Images\u003cp\u003eArchaeological, Linguistic, and Historical Sources.\u003c\/p\u003eSixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries: Chol-LacandonEighteenth Century: Yucatec Lacandon\u003cp\u003eLacandon in the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLacandon in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLacandon 1980-2015\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Two: Reconstructing the Historical Lacandon: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho Is Lacandon? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Does Traditional Lacandon Mean?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLacandon Life from 1790-1903 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMen and Women’s Work \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReligion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarriage and Household Life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelling Lacandon Religion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo Case Studies and Concluding Thoughts \u003c\/p\u003eSo, How Can I Write About “the Lacandon”?\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Watching Life in a Lacandon Community\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn Overview of Women, Men, and Work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWomen’s Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMen's Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFamily Examples\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChan K?in Viejo and his Household\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKoh III and Koh IV, Summer1985 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChild Birth, and Infant Mortality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Death of Nuk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: 1970-2020, Five Decades of Change \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGovernment, Oil and Immigration, an Overview\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFamily Relations, Work, and Historic Lacandon Horticulture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoads, Bows and Arrows, and Tourism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdapting Agricultural to Tourism: Comparing Two Communities \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMen, tourism, and Agriculture in Nahá. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgriculture and Tourism in Lacanha. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWomen, Tourism, and Work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Traditional” women \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWomen in households oriented to tourism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidows\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Finding an Income in the Lacandon Jungle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProviding Food and Lodging for Visitors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHousehold-Level Entrepreneurial Activities\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArchaeology in Mensäbäk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWorking for CONANP\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour Families in Mensäbäk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEconomic and Cultural Changes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShifting to a Money-Based Economy and Culture Change\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChanging diet and health\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChanging household-based reciprocity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChanging status\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChanging household demographics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing Up in a Changing World: The Cases of K\u003csup\u003e?\u003c\/sup\u003ein and Chan K\u003csup\u003e?\u003c\/sup\u003ein Quinto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Decline of Non-Christian Religion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCosmology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRitual Places: Classic Period Ruins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaves and Rock Shelters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGod Houses\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRitual Implements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTypes of Offerings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdible Offerings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRitual and Agriculture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHealing and Ritual \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe End of the World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusions: The End of Non-Christian Religion \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: Changing Healing Practices\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLacandon Categories of Sickness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCuring Through Prayer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTherapeutic Incantations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCuring Strings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMedicinal Plants\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecline of Healing Rituals\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Eight: Forty Years Among the Lacandon: Some Lessons Learned \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is Lacandon Culture? 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