The author contends that for 250 years, roughly from the 1720s to the 1970s, the sociocultural system of Peten endured with remarkable continuity, not in spite of the changes in the hinterland region but, to an important degree, because of them.
Norman B. Schwartz is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Delaware. He is the author of A Milpero of Peten, Guatemala: Autobiographical and Cultural Analysis.
"A masterful blend of historical, ecological, economic, and ethnic themes."—American Anthropologist
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