 | Forest Society: A Social History of Peten, Guatemala Subjects: Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Petén (Dept.) -- History; Mayas -- History; Ladino (Latin American people) -- History; Ethnic relations -- Guatemala -- Petén (Dept.); Chicle gum industry -- Guatemala -- Petén (Dept.); Petén (Guatemala: Dept.) -; 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. Schwartz Norman B. : Norman B. Schwartz is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Delaware. |
