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The Maya world : Yucatec culture and society, 1550-1850

Author: Matthew Restall
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Sophisticated study resting on a foundation of the analysis of postcontact indigenous language documentation ranging from notarial records to primordial titles. Author is interested in charting the persistence and evolution after the Spanish invasion of the Maya cahob, or self-governing communities, as well as the chibal, or extended family lineage. He does so with skill and aplomb, producing a major work of  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Sources
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Matthew Restall
ISBN: 0804727457 9780804727457
OCLC Number: 34984189
Description: xiv, 441 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1. Introduction --
Pt. 1. Identity and Organization. 2. The Cah: Identity. 3. The Cah: Entity. 4. Names. 5. Government. 6. Politics: Faction, Office, and Career --
Pt. 2. Society and Culture. 7. Class. 8. Daily Life. 9. Inheritance. 10. Gender. 11. Sexuality. 12. Religion --
Pt. 3. Land and Material Culture. 13. Settlement. 14. Economic and Material Culture. 15. Land Description. 16. Tenure and Exchange. 17. Conflict and Conquest --
Pt. 4. Literacy and Language. 18. Notarial Purpose and Style. 19. Petitions. 20. Election Records. 21. Quasi-Notarial Genres. 22. Language. 23. Conclusion --
App A. Six Maya Notarial Documents --
App B. Incidence of Maya Patronyms in Nine Cahob --
App C. Cabildo Officers of Eight Cahob --
App D. Wealth and Inheritance in Ixil, Cacalchen, and Nine Other Cahob --
App E. The Material World of the Cah: Property Items in Maya Testaments from Four Cahob, 1640-1835 --
App F. Spanish Loanwords and Phrases in Maya Notarial Documents.
Responsibility: Matthew Restall.
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"Sophisticated study resting on a foundation of the analysis of postcontact indigenous language documentation ranging from notarial records to primordial titles. Author is interested in charting the persistence and evolution after the Spanish invasion of the Maya cahob, or self-governing communities, as well as the chibal, or extended family lineage. He does so with skill and aplomb, producing a major work of ethnohistorical analysis"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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