Forest Society
A Social History of Petén, Guatemala

Norman B. Schwartz

320 pages | 21 illus.
Paper 1990 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1316-4 | $24.95s | £16.50 | Add to shopping cart
A volume in the Ethnohistory Series

The author contends that for 250 years, roughly from the 1720s to the 1970s, the sociocultural system of Petén endured with remarkable continuity, not in spite of the changes in the hinterland region but, to an important degree, because of them.

"A masterful blend of historical, ecological, economic, and ethnic themes."—American Anthropologist

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