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Informationen zum Autor R. Jon McGee is professor of anthropology at Texas State University. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Watching Lacandon Maya Lives, Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia (coedited with Richard L. Warms), and Sacred Realms: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion (coedited with Warms and James Garber), now in its second edition. Klappentext Although romanticized as the last of the ancient Maya living isolated in the forest, several generations of the Lacandon Maya have had their lives shaped by the international oil economy, tourism, and political unrest.Watching Lacandon Maya Lives is an examination of dramatic cultural changes in a Maya rainforest farming community over the last forty years, including changes to their families, industries, religion, health and healing practices, and gender roles. The book contains several discussions of anthropological theory in accessible, jargon-free language, including how the use of different theoretical perspectives impacts an ethnographer's fieldwork experience. While relating his own mishaps, experiences of community strife, and conflicts, Jon McGee encourages students to shed the romantic veil through which ethnographies are usually viewed and think more deeply about how events in our own lives influence how we understand the behavior of people around us.New to the Second Edition:Revised Introduction incorporates the author's recent work with the Lacandon and discussions of anthropological writing, culture theory, and how events in the author's personal life have changed his approach to anthropological fieldwork.Revised chapter, "Finding an Income in the Lacandon Jungle" focuses on families who have shifted from a subsistence farming economy to earning revenue by renting facilities to tourists, owning small community stores, working as hired labor for archaeologists, or make use of a variety of government rural aid programs created in the last two decades (Chapter 5).New chapter, "Forty Years Among the Lacandon: Some Lessons Learned," discusses what the author's 40 years of experience as an ethnographer has taught him about the discipline of anthropology and the concept of culture (Chapter 8) Zusammenfassung In Watching Lacandon Maya Lives, the author follows three generations of one Lacandon Maya family. Readers track the subjects' lives as they shift through events such as marriage, parenthood, and religious conversion, all set against a backdrop of increased tourism, road construction, and the murders of two people in the community. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter One: The Myth of Lacandon Origins. Romantic Images Archaeological, Linguistic, and Historical Sources. Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries: Chol-LacandonEighteenth Century: Yucatec Lacandon Lacandon in the Nineteenth Century Lacandon in the Twentieth Century Lacandon 1980-2015 Chapter Two: Reconstructing the Historical Lacandon: Who Is Lacandon? What Does Traditional Lacandon Mean? Lacandon Life from 1790-1903 Men and Women's Work Religion Marriage and Household Life Selling Lacandon Religion Two Case Studies and Concluding Thoughts So, How Can I Write About "the Lacandon"? Chapter 3: Watching Life in a Lacandon Community An Overview of Women, Men, and Work. Women's Work Men's Work Family Examples Chan K?in Viejo and his Household Koh III and Koh IV, Summer1985 Child Birth, and Infant Mortality The Death of Nuk Chapter 4: 1970-2020, Five Decades of Change Government, Oil and Immigration, an Overview Family Relations, Work, and Historic Lacandon Horticulture Roads, Bows and Arrows, and Tourism Adapting Agricultural to Tourism: Comparing Two Communities Men, tourism, and Agriculture in Nahá. Agriculture and Tourism in ...
