Conceptions of Primary Forest in a Tzeltal Maya Community: Implications for Conservation From: Human Organization | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: Casagrande, David G | Copyright Society of Applied Anthropology Summer 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Tzeltal Maya of Chiapas, Mexico, recognize and name different stages of forest succession. Ethnobotanical interviews and analyses of free lists indicated that the Tzeltal Maya of Matsab are knowledgeable about what plants and birds are limited to the primary forest, but they do not appear to rely exclusively on this knowledge to distinguish between habitats. Other features such as tree size, humidity, and soil characteristics appear to take precedence over species composition. Consensus analy...

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