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Author Yetman, David, 1941-

Title Mayo ethnobotany : land, history, and traditional knowledge in northwest Mexico / David Yetman and Thomas R. Van Devender
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 359 pages)
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
Summary 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 traditional Mayo lands
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (331-335) and index
Notes English
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Subject Mayo Indians -- Ethnobotany
Ethnobotany -- Mexico -- Sonora (State)
Ethnobotany -- Mexico -- Sinaloa (State)
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Botany.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Ethnobotany
Mayo (volk)
Indianen.
Etnobotanie.
Mexico -- Sinaloa (State)
Mexico -- Sonora (State)
Form Electronic book
Author Van Devender, Thomas R.
LC no. 2021697126
ISBN 9780520926356
0520926358
0585466122
9780585466125
1597347396
9781597347396
9780520227217
0520227212
9786612356346
6612356340