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Mayo ethnobotany : land, history, and traditional knowledge in northwest Mexico /
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 tradition...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2002.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.