The Evidence of Responsibility-Based Thinking in Present-Day Maya Land-Use Practices

The goal of this chapter is to present my research findings and what I have learned about spiritually informed land-use in Xuilub in an “ethnographic” manner and not in relation to disciplinary conversations in Indigenous geographies and IK research. This is done in order to give the reader sufficient evidence in this chapter to support my argument that responsibility-based thinking is the defining characteristic of the Maya land ethos and that it transcends the different meanings associated with the main land-use activities in the community. The broader significance of these findings and a critical discussion regarding the intended contributions of my research in Xuilub to the aforementioned disciplines are reserved for Chap. 6.