Maya Resurgence in Guatemala: Q’eqchi’ Experiences

Maya phytomedicine in Guatemala - Can cooperative research change ethnopharmacological paradigms?

ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE This paper presents one of the first large-scale collaborative research projects in ethnopharmacology, to bring together indigenous stakeholders and scientists both in project design and execution. This approach has often been recommended but rarely put into practice. The study was carried out in two key indigenous areas of Guatemala, for which very little ethnoph...

Promoting Birthspacing Among The Maya - Quiché of Guatemala

ternational Health and Development, Janet Rice is associate professor of biostatistics, and at the time this article was written Christine Kolars Sow was a doctoral student, all at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA. At the time the research described in this article was conducted, Sandra Guerra de Salazar and Lidia Mazariegos were members of t...

Migration to the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala: Why place matters.

Virtually all migration research examines international migration or urbanization. Yet understudied rural migrants are of critical concern for environmental conservation and rural sustainable development. Despite the fact that a relatively small number of all migrants settle remote rural frontiers, these are the agents responsible for perhaps most of the tropical deforestation on the planet. Fu...

Land cover change and ownership turnover in the agricultural frontier: the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala

This study investigates land cover change and land ownership turnover in an area that is both the agricultural frontier and a priority conservation zone, the Sierra del Lacandón National Park (SLNP), Petén, Guatemala. The goal is to understand how the agricultural frontier changes over time with regard to population, household characteristics, and land use. This study analyzes panel-data consis...

Archaeology in the Maya Heartland: The Tayasal - Paxcaman Zone, Lake Peten, Guatemala