num_pages: 406
description: The maguey plant plays a central role in cultural adaptation and cultural change in highland Mesoamerica. This book is a comprehensive study of the plant and its use. Includes chapters on maguey cultivation and pulque production, maguey fiber processing and spinning, and the archaeological implications of the available ethnographic and historic information about maguey utilization.
language: English
title: Maguey Utilization in Highland Central Mexico: An Archaeological Ethnography (Anthropological Papers Series)
titlecomplete: Maguey Utilization in Highland Central Mexico: An Archaeological Ethnography (Anthropological Papers Series) (Volume 82)
ratings_count: 2
publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY