The maguey plant plays a central role in cultural adaptation and cultural change in highland Mesoamerica. This book is a comprehensive study of the plant and its use. Includes chapters on maguey cultivation and pulque production, maguey fiber processing and spinning, and the archaeological implications of the available ethnographic and historic information about maguey utilization.
| ISBN: | 9780915703203 |
| Publication date: | 30th January 1990 |
| Author: | Jeffrey R Parsons, Mary Hrones Parsons |
| Publisher: | University of Michigan, Museum of Anthropology an imprint of University of Michigan Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 388 pages |
| Series: | Anthropological Papers / Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan |
| Genres: |
Archaeology |