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Download or read book Hach Winik written by Didier Boremanse and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hach Winik may be the last comprehensive study of traditional Lacandon Maya society based on intensive ethnographic fieldwork. In the 1970s and 1980s, Boremanse collected cultural data and textual materials from two groups of Lacandon who still remained relatively isolated. Topics presented here include the history of Lacandon contact with other peoples, settlement patterns, the life cycle, social control, residence and marriage, the kinship system, and the ritual expression of these social domains.