Maya Society under Colonial Rule : : The Collective Enterprise of Survival / / Nancy Marguerite Farriss.
This book traces the history of the Maya Indians of Yucatan, Mexico,during a four-hundred-year period from late preconquest times throughthe end of Spanish rule in 1821. Nancy Farriss combines the tools of thehistorian and the anthropologist to reconstruct colonial Maya society andculture as a web o...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1984 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (600 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- TABLES, FIGURES, AND MAPS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PROLOGUE
- PART ONE THE IMPLICATIONS OF CONQUEST
- 1 A COLONIAL REGIME
- 2 INDIAN REACTIONS AND SPANISH MODIFICATIONS
- 3 A DIVIDED COLONIAL WORLD
- PART TWO A FRAGILE SOCIAL ORDER
- 4 THE ELUSIVE SOCIAL BOND
- 5 CREATION OF THE COLONIAL COMMUNITY
- 6 SNAGS AND TEARS IN THE SOCIAL FABRIC
- 7 POPULATION MOVEMENTS: THE FRAYING EDGES
- PART THREE ADAPTATION AND SURVIVAL
- 8 MAYA ELITES: THE FIXED CENTER
- 9 SURVIVAL AS A CORPORATE ENTERPRISE
- 10 THE COSMIC ORDER IN CRISIS
- 11 MAINTAINING THE COSMOS
- PART FOUR NEO-COLONIAL SOCIETY
- 12 THE SECOND CONQUEST
- EPILOGUE
- APPENDIX 1 POPULATION OF YUCATAN, 1806
- APPENDIX 2 SOURCES AND METHODS
- NOTES
- GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX