Maya society under colonial rule : the collective enterprise of survival /

"This is a study of the Maya Indians of Yucatan, Mexico, from late preconquest times through the end of Spanish colonial rules (ca. 1500-1820). It takes the form of an historical ethnography, which attempts to reconstruct the Maya world in as comprehensive a fashion as possible--by relating eco...

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Hlavní autor: Farriss, Nancy M. (Nancy Marguerite), 1938-
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©1984.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1qgnq9n
Obsah:
  • A colonial regime
  • Indian reactions and Spanish modifications
  • A divided colonial world
  • The elusive social bond
  • Creation of the colonial community
  • Snags and tears in the social fabric
  • Population movements: the fraying edges
  • Maya elites: the fixed center
  • Survival as a corporate enterprise
  • The cosmic order in crisis
  • Maintaining the cosmos
  • The second conquest.