Yucatec Maya Film Project
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1985.8.1
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smith, Hubert, 1938-
setName: label: See more items in
content: Hubert Smith collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (color sound; 150,000 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1977
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Full film record shot over a one-year period in the Yucatan Maya village of Chican (Mexico). Footage documents Mayan family life and agricultural practices with a focus on the relationship between traditional religion and the cultivation of corn. Social difficulties which arise from drought, family illness, and a government mandated "collective" orchard that goes against Maya cultural traditions are explored as is the pull of urban life upon a village family. The four-part film series, THE LIVING MAYA, which addresses issues of social change and modernization among the Maya, was produced from this project.

Legacy keywords: Agricultural crops ; Religion ; Health ; Children ; Villages Mexico ; Sign language ; Deafness