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Watching Lacandon Maya Lives by McGee Texas State University
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- Book Title
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1538126176
ISBN-13
9781538126172
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25057249583
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
230 Pages
Publication Name
Watching Lacandon Maya Lives
Language
English
Subject
Women's Studies, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General
Publication Year
2023
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
11.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
2
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2022-042718
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
Watching Lacandon Maya Lives, 2e is the best detailed treatise of Northern Lacandon Maya domestic life and social interaction in rural Chiapas, Mexico to date. McGee's long-term and thoughtful insights on field research, cultural interpretations, gender issues, social change, and people's individual perspectives and actions make Watching Lacandon Maya Lives anthropologically significant. I very much recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn more about Lacandon Maya society and the discipline of anthropology., McGee's second edition to Watching Lacandon Maya Lives provides an honest and valuable insight into Lacandon lifeways from the past to the present. Through the description of his personal experience among three generations of one extended family in a Lacandon village, the author shows how the natives adapted to cultural and environmental changes, underlining the importance of extensive anthropological field work and personal commitment., In this new edition, McGee invites readers to consider the nature of social change as he reflects on more than 40 years of fieldwork among Lacandon Maya families. Ethnographically driven, theoretically informed, and accessibly written, the text offers a welcome update to an anthropological classic., Watching Lacandón Lives highlights the lucid observations that Jon McGee gleaned from decades of research among Lacandón Maya families in Mexico's tropical rainforest. Through his perceptive description of continuing change in Lacandón communities--and within himself--he has produced a book filled with friendship, insight, and authenticity., The revised edition of Watching Lacandon Maya Lives will be useful to scholars and students as an honest introduction to the realities of anthropological fieldwork: the early awkwardness of entering a new environment and living among people who hold a different vision of the universe and the delight, frustration, and self-doubts that come from watching other people's lives and trying to understand why they act the way they do. Most importantly, McGee describes how he, as an anthropologist and an individual, has reacted to the lessons of field research and how those lessons have affected his work and life. In highlighting the changes he has witnessed during four decades of watching Lacandón Maya lives, and in acknowledging the changes he has observed in himself, McGee has brought us a book filled with insight, understanding, and authenticity., After the exceptional first edition of Watching Lacandon Maya Lives, anthropologist Jon McGee returns with an even more enduring and insightful text reflecting on his forty years of ethnographic work in a Lacandan community. In this engaging work, readers are taken on a journey through the lives of three generations of one large extended family in the community of Nahá and through the author's personal, informal-yet-academically driven writing style, witness the transformative social change in one indigenous culture. From an economy based upon swidden horticulture to one based upon a mixed economy of tourism and government aid, this text offers an insightful view on how economic changes can have sweeping ramifications felt over time, and on multiple levels of cultural practice. McGee draws upon his ethnographic field experience and invites readers in to discover, as he did, how it is that who we are, what we experience, informs how we understand and interact those with whom we share the world., 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.
Grade From
College Freshman
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
972/.004974152
Grade To
College Graduate Student
Table Of Content
Introduction Chapter One: The Myth of Lacandon Origins . Romantic ImagesArchaeological, Linguistic, and Historical Sources. Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries: Chol-LacandonEighteenth Century: Yucatec LacandonLacandon in the Nineteenth Century Lacandon in the Twentieth Century Lacandon 1980-2015 Chapter 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 Life Selling Lacandon Religion Two Case Studies and Concluding Thoughts So, How Can I Write About "the Lacandon"? Chapter 3: Watching Life in a Lacandon Community An Overview of Women, Men, and Work. Women's Work Men's Work Family Examples Chan K?in Viejo and his Household Koh III and Koh IV, Summer1985 Child Birth, and Infant Mortality The Death of Nuk Chapter 4: 1970-2020, Five Decades of Change Government, Oil and Immigration, an Overview Family Relations, Work, and Historic Lacandon Horticulture Roads, Bows and Arrows, and Tourism Adapting 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 tourism Widows Chapter 5: Finding an Income in the Lacandon Jungle Providing Food and Lodging for Visitors Household-Level Entrepreneurial Activities Archaeology in Mensäbäk Working for CONANP Four Families in Mensäbäk Economic and Cultural Changes Shifting to a Money-Based Economy and Culture Change Changing diet and health Changing household-based reciprocity Changing status Changing household demographics Growing Up in a Changing World: The Cases of K?in and Chan K?in Quinto Chapter 6: Decline of Non-Christian Religion Cosmology Ritual Places: Classic Period Ruins Caves and Rock Shelters God Houses Ritual Implements Types of Offerings Edible Offerings Ritual and Agriculture Healing and Ritual The End of the World Conclusions: The End of Non-Christian Religion Chapter 7: Changing Healing Practices Lacandon Categories of Sickness Curing Through Prayer Therapeutic Incantations Curing Strings Medicinal Plants Decline of Healing Rituals Chapter Eight: Forty Years Among the Lacandon: Some Lessons Learned What is Lacandon Culture? What People Say is Different from What They Do Marriage, Fatherhood, and McGee's Position in the Community The Fire: 6/9/99 Glossary References Cited
Synopsis
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), 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.
LC Classification Number
F1221.L2M425 2023
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