Animals and the Maya in Southeast Mexico

by E.N. Anderson and Felix Medina Tzuc

In Mexico's southeastern frontier state of Quintana Roo, game animals and other creatures that depend on old-growth forest are disappearing in the face of habitat destruction and overhunting. Traditionally, the Yucatec Maya have regarded animals as fellow members of a wider society, and in their religion animals enjoy the status of spiritual beings. But in recent years, the breakdown of cultural restraints on hunting has spiraled so far out...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816523940
• ISBN13: 9780816523948
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"