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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1984.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.