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Forest Society : A Social History of Peten, Guatemala / Norman B. Schwartz.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Ethnohistory SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1991Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) : 21 illusContent type:
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  • 9780812282481
  • 9781512806786
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Physical Environment and Population -- Chapter Two. Conquest, Depopulation, and Colonization, 1697-1821 -- Chapter Three. Social Continuity and Economic Stagnation, 1821-1890s -- Chapter Four. La Chiclería: An Extractive Economy -- Chapter Five. The Impact of Oro Blanco -- Chapter Six. Conclusion: Continuity, Change, and a New Turn -- Appendix: Status Continuity in Petén, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: The author contends that for 250 years, roughly from the 1720s to the 1970s, the sociocultural system of Petén endured with remarkable continuity, not in spite of the changes in the hinterland region but, to an important degree, because of them.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Physical Environment and Population -- Chapter Two. Conquest, Depopulation, and Colonization, 1697-1821 -- Chapter Three. Social Continuity and Economic Stagnation, 1821-1890s -- Chapter Four. La Chiclería: An Extractive Economy -- Chapter Five. The Impact of Oro Blanco -- Chapter Six. Conclusion: Continuity, Change, and a New Turn -- Appendix: Status Continuity in Petén, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

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The author contends that for 250 years, roughly from the 1720s to the 1970s, the sociocultural system of Petén endured with remarkable continuity, not in spite of the changes in the hinterland region but, to an important degree, because of them.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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