TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schwartz,Norman B.
TI  - Forest Society: A Social History of Peten, Guatemala 
T2  - The Ethnohistory Series
SN  - 9780812282481
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Linguistics
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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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