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The Forest of the Lacandon Maya: An Ethnobotanical Guide, with active links to audio-video recordings, serves as a comprehensive guide to the botanical heritage of the northern Lacandones. Numbering fewer than 300 men, women, and children, this community is the most culturally conservative of the Mayan groups. Protected by their hostile environment, over many centuries they maintain autonomy from the outside forces of church and state, while they continue to draw on the forest for spiritual inspiration and sustenance. In The Forest of the Lacandon Maya: An Ethnobotanical Guide, linguist Suzanne Cook presents a bilingual Lacandon-English ethnobotanical guide to more than 450 plants in a tripartite organization: a botanical inventory in which main entries are headed by Lacandon names followed by common English and botanical names, and which includes plant descriptions and uses; an ethnographic inventory, which expands the descriptions given in the botanical inventory, providing the socio-historical, dietary, mythological, and spiritual significance of most plants; and chapters that discuss the relevant cultural applications of the plants in more detail provide a description of the area’s geography, and give an ethnographic overview of the Lacandones. Active links throughout the text to original audio-video recordings demonstrate the use and preparation of the most significant plants.

Plant breeding. --- Botany - General --- Botany --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Forest management --- Lacandon Indians --- Ethnobotany --- Xoquinoe Indians --- Forest administration --- Forest plants --- Forest resource administration --- Forest resource management --- Forest stewardship --- Forest vegetation management --- Forestry management --- Forests and forestry --- Stewardship, Forest --- Vegetation management, Forest --- Management --- Administration --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of Mexico --- Mayas --- Ecosystem management --- Natural resources --- Control --- Botany. --- Biochemistry. --- Plant anatomy. --- Plant physiology. --- Plant genetics. --- Plant Sciences. --- Plant Biochemistry. --- Plant Anatomy/Development. --- Plant Physiology. --- Plant Genetics and Genomics. --- Plants --- Genetics --- Plant structure --- Structural botany --- Vegetable anatomy --- Anatomy --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Biology --- Chemistry --- Medical sciences --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Natural history --- Physiology --- Structure --- Composition --- Plant science. --- Plant biochemistry. --- Plant development. --- Development of plants --- Plant development --- Developmental biology --- Growth (Plants) --- Phytochemistry --- Plant biochemistry --- Plant chemistry --- Biochemistry --- Phytochemicals --- Plant biochemical genetics --- Ontogeny --- Floristic botany