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Maya Society under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival
Nancy Marguerite Farriss
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Description for Maya Society under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival
Paperback. Num Pages: 600 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 37. Weight in Grams: 914.
This book traces the history of the Maya Indians of Yucatan, Mexico, during a four-hundred-year period from late preconquest times through the end of Spanish rule in 1821. Nancy Farriss combines the tools of the historian and the anthropologist to reconstruct colonial Maya society and culture as a web of interlocking systems, from ecology and modes of subsistence through the corporate family and the community to the realm of the sacred. She shows how the Maya adapted to Spanish domination, changing in ways that embodied Maya principles as they applied their traditional collective strategies for survival to the new challenges; ... Read more
This book traces the history of the Maya Indians of Yucatan, Mexico, during a four-hundred-year period from late preconquest times through the end of Spanish rule in 1821. Nancy Farriss combines the tools of the historian and the anthropologist to reconstruct colonial Maya society and culture as a web of interlocking systems, from ecology and modes of subsistence through the corporate family and the community to the realm of the sacred. She shows how the Maya adapted to Spanish domination, changing in ways that embodied Maya principles as they applied their traditional collective strategies for survival to the new challenges; ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
Number of Pages
600
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691101583
SKU
V9780691101583
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Reviews for Maya Society under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival
Winner of the 1985 Albert J. Beveridge Award in American History, American Historical Association Winner of the 1985 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Award, American Society for Ethnohistory Winner of the 1985 Herbert Eugene Bolton Memorial Prize, Conference on Latin American History "[T]his book deserves to become a classic because it is not only the best book on colonial Yucatan but also one ... Read more