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Tradition and adaptationBook 1975 • Press, Irwin
Maya (Yucatán Peninsula) • Middle America and the Caribbean > Maya Area
According to the author, Irwin Press, change has been a feature of peasant life for hundreds of years. Villagers have been able to accommodate change because theirs is a 'society of parts' and not a fragile, tightly knit integrated whole. Differences...