Forest Society
Subtitle: A Social History of Peten, Guatemala (University of Pennsylvania Press Ethnohistory Series)
Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
Published: January 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780812282481
Subjects: Anthropology; Applied ecology; Peten (Dept.); Ecological Anthropology; Sociology; Petâen (Dept.); Guatemala; History; Indians of Central America; Ladino (Latin American people); Mayas
First sentence: Up to about 1970 the physical environment of Peten remained substantially the same as it was in 1697 when the Spanish conquered Tayasal, the last independent Maya stronghold in the region.