Mayo ethnobotany : land, history, and traditional knowledge in northwest Mexico / David Yetman and Thomas R. Van Devender.
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TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 359 p.)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520926356
- 0520926358
- 0585466122
- 9780585466125
- 1597347396
- 9781597347396
- 9780520227217
- 0520227212
- 9786612356346
- 6612356340
- Mayo Indians -- Ethnobotany
- Ethnobotany -- Mexico -- Sonora (State)
- Ethnobotany -- Mexico -- Sinaloa (State)
- Mayo (Indiens) -- Ethnobotanique
- Ethnobotanique -- Mexique -- Sonora (État)
- Ethnobotanique -- Mexique -- Sinaloa (État)
- SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Botany
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- Ethnobotany
- Mexico -- Sinaloa (State)
- Mexico -- Sonora (State)
- Mayo (volk)
- Indianen
- Etnobotanie
- 581.6/0972/17 21
- F1221.M3
- 73.06
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Includes bibliographical references (331-335) and index.
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Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The People and the Land; 2. A Brief Ethnography of the Mayos; 3. Historical and Contemporary Mayos; 4. Plant and Animal Life; 5. Eight Plants That Make Mayos Mayos; 6. Plant Uses; 7. An Annotated List of Plants; Appendix A: Mayo Region Place Names and Their Meanings; Appendix B: Yoreme Consultants; Appendix C: Gazetteer of the Mayo Region; Appendix D: Mayo Plants Listed by Spanish Name; Appendix E: Mayo Plants Listed by Mayo Name; Appendix F: Glossary of Mayo and Spanish Terms; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
The Mayos, an indigenous people of northwestern Mexico, live in small towns spread over southern Sonora and northern Sinaloa, lands of remarkable biological diversity. This book contains a comprehensive description of northwest Mexico's tropical deciduous forests and thornscrub on the traditional Mayo lands.
English.
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