Under the Shade of Thipaak (eBook, PDF)

The Ethnoecology of Cycads in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean
Redaktion: Carrasco, Michael D.; Englehardt, Joshua D.; Bonta, Mark A.; Cibrián-Jaramillo, Angélica

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Produktbeschreibung

Society for Ethnobotany Daniel F. Austin Award

The important cultural role of an ancient, endangered plant





Under the Shade of Thipaak is the first book to explore the cultural role of cycads, plants that evolved over 250 million years ago and are now critically endangered, in the ancient and modern Mesoamerican and Caribbean worlds. This volume demonstrates how these ancient plants have figured prominently in regional mythologies, rituals, art, and foodways from the Pleistocene-Holocene transition to the present.

Contributors discuss the importance of cycads from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including biology and population genetics, historical ecology, archaeology, art history, linguistics, and conservation and sustainability. Chapters pay special attention to the enduring conceptual relationships between cycads and maize. This book demonstrates how a close examination of cycad-human relationships can motivate conservation of these threatened plants in ways that engage local communities, as well as promote the significance of ancient and modern practices that unite nature and culture.

Contributors: Francisco Barona-Gómez Emanuel Bojorquez Quintal Mark A. Bonta Edder Daniel Bustos-Díaz Dánae Cabrera-Toledo Michael Calonje Michael D. Carrasco Angélica Cibrián-Jaramillo Joshua D. Englehardt Jorge González-Astorga Naishla M. Gutiérrez-Arroyo José Saíd Gutiérrez-Ortega Thomas Hart Jaime R. Pagán-Jiménez Francisco Pérez-Zavala Luis Rojas Abarca Esteban Sánchez Rodríguez Dennis William Stevenson Amber M. VanDerwarker Luis R. Velázquez Maldonado Andrew P. Vovides

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Florida
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780813070179
• Artikelnr.: 75639942