Our invited speakers are knowledgeable about the broad range of problems associated with the use of traditional knowledge to develop marketable natural products in general, and concerned about establishing formats for equitable sharing of benefits derived from ethnobioprospecting. Declaration of Athens is DOA at Georgia's International Congress of Ethnobiology. I consider the role of some Natives in selling their cultural knowledge to would-be shamans to be a serious problem in Mayan Studies and indeed, for Mayan people. They are not working with that kind of medicine, so they do not understand the medicine of the Maya.
Traditional medicine is something more.
So what I am trying to tell you is that you must try to begin to understand the medicine of the Maya. The setting is the spring Equinox when a shadow said to represent the Maya serpent-god Kukulkan appears on one temple pyramid. As more than 40,000 New Age spiritualists and secular tourists from the United States and Mexico converge to witness this solar phenomenon, the video depicts the surrounding social event as a complicated entanglement of expected dualisms concerning tourism. The film explores the relationship of Don Chabo with his apprentice, with three generations of his family and with the numerous and varied persons who come before his altar. Over the years of filming on location in southern Yucatan, Hanks evidences an increasing sense of responsibility as Don Chabo's only apprentice.