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Book reviews BOOK REVIEWS DANIEL E AUSTIN, BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Mayo Ethnobotany. Land, History, and Traditional Knowledge in Northwest Mexico. Yetman, David and Thomas R Van Devender 2002 Umversity of California Press, 2130 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94720. XlV + 359 pp (hardcover) US $48 00 ISBN 0-520-22721-2 The publlcatmn of Mayo Ethnobotany deserves our celebration Combining field observations, hbrary and herbarium research, authors Yetman and Van Devender pooled their resources to produce a comprehensive portrait of the geology, geography, history, language, culture and botany of the Mayos, an indigenous people of northwestern Mexico As with many other cultures, Mayo traditional knowledge is rapidly being lost as the people are absorbed into modern Mexico The authors, who started out working in the Rio Mayo region independently and explored the land for several years unbeknownst to each other, spent six years studying the Mayo region, though their studies continue. They had previously hved and worked m the Sonoran Desert for decades, and their attention was drawn to Rio Mayo because the "desert dwindles away and merges into more tropical" systems The book's contents are divided into two sections Part one consists of a description of the people and the land, a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Economic Botany Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2002 by The New York Botanical Garden Press
Subject
Life Sciences; Plant Sciences; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography; Plant Anatomy/Development; Plant Physiology; Plant Ecology
ISSN
0013-0001
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1874-9364
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10.1663/0013-0001%282002%29056%5B0401:MELHAT%5D2.0.CO%3B2
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BOOK REVIEWS DANIEL E AUSTIN, BOOK REVIEW EDITOR Mayo Ethnobotany. Land, History, and Traditional Knowledge in Northwest Mexico. Yetman, David and Thomas R Van Devender 2002 Umversity of California Press, 2130 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94720. XlV + 359 pp (hardcover) US $48 00 ISBN 0-520-22721-2 The publlcatmn of Mayo Ethnobotany deserves our celebration Combining field observations, hbrary and herbarium research, authors Yetman and Van Devender pooled their resources to produce a comprehensive portrait of the geology, geography, history, language, culture and botany of the Mayos, an indigenous people of northwestern Mexico As with many other cultures, Mayo traditional knowledge is rapidly being lost as the people are absorbed into modern Mexico The authors, who started out working in the Rio Mayo region independently and explored the land for several years unbeknownst to each other, spent six years studying the Mayo region, though their studies continue. They had previously hved and worked m the Sonoran Desert for decades, and their attention was drawn to Rio Mayo because the "desert dwindles away and merges into more tropical" systems The book's contents are divided into two sections Part one consists of a description of the people and the land, a

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Published: Dec 1, 2002

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