Agricultural Origins
Agroecology
Ancient diet
Ancient Mesoamerica
Beans
Biocultural Heritage
Caribbean
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Circum-Caribbean
conservation
Cycad biology
Cycads
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Ethnobotany
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Food Security
Foodways
historical ecology
Human-mediated dispersal
Human-plant relationships
indigenous epistemologies
Maize
Mexico
Microsatellites
Nitrogen Fixation
Olmec
Paleoethnobotany
Population genetics
Taxonomy
Teosinte
The Americas
Tripsacum
wild food plant
Zamia
Zamiaceae
Zea mays parviglumis
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- ISBN 9780813069364
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 30 Aug 2022
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Under the Shade of Thipaak is the first book to explore the cultural role of cycads, plants that evolved over 250 million years ago and are now critically endangered, in the ancient and modern Mesoamerican and Caribbean worlds. This volume demonstrates how these ancient plants have figured prominently in regional mythologies, rituals, art, and foodways from the Pleistocene-Holocene transition to the present.
Contributors discuss the importance of cycads from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including biology and population genetics, historical ecology, archaeology, art history, linguistics, and conservation and sustainability. Chapters pay special attention to the enduring conceptual relationships between cycads and maize. This book demonstrates how a close examination of cycad-human relationships can motivate conservation of these threatened plants in ways that engage local communities, as well as promote the significance of ancient and modern practices that unite nature and culture.
Contributors discuss the importance of cycads from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including biology and population genetics, historical ecology, archaeology, art history, linguistics, and conservation and sustainability. Chapters pay special attention to the enduring conceptual relationships between cycads and maize. This book demonstrates how a close examination of cycad-human relationships can motivate conservation of these threatened plants in ways that engage local communities, as well as promote the significance of ancient and modern practices that unite nature and culture.
Michael D. Carrasco, associate dean of the College of Fine Arts and associate professor of art history at Florida State University, is coeditor of Interregional Interaction in Ancient Mesoamerica.
Angélica Cibrián-Jaramillo is head of the Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics lab at the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico.
Mark A. Bonta is a geographer and independent scholar.
Joshua D. Englehardt, research professor of archaeology at El Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico, is coeditor of Ancient West Mexicos: Time, Space, and Diversity.
Angélica Cibrián-Jaramillo is head of the Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics lab at the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional in Mexico.
Mark A. Bonta is a geographer and independent scholar.
Joshua D. Englehardt, research professor of archaeology at El Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico, is coeditor of Ancient West Mexicos: Time, Space, and Diversity.
