A01=Nancy Marguerite Farriss
Author_Nancy Marguerite Farriss
Aztec
Aztec Empire
Bartolome de las Casas
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Cenote
Chiapas
Chichen Itza
Chilam Balam
Christianity
Christianity and Paganism
Clergy
Colonial mentality
Colonialism
Colonization
Communal land
Community property
Council of the Indies
Criollo people
Curate
Deity
Diego de Landa
Encomienda
Endogamy
Enterprise theory
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Extended family
Franciscans
Francisco Pizarro
Friar
Guatemala
Hacienda
Honduras
Income
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Internal migration
Land grant
Maize
Manila galleon
Maya civilization
Maya codices
Maya peoples
Maya priesthood
Maya religion
Maya rulers
Maya society
Mayapan
Mendicant orders
Mesoamerica
Mexican Revolution
Milpa
Mulatto
New Spain
Nobility
Oaxaca
Olmec
Paganism
Peasant
Pre-Columbian era
Religion
Repartimiento
Smithsonian Institution
Society of Jesus
Spaniards
Spanish colonization of the Americas
Spanish conquest of Yucatan
Tax
Toltec
Toltec (Castaneda)
Wealth
Yucatan
Yucatec Maya language
Product details
- ISBN 9780691101583
- Weight: 907g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jun 1984
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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; they fared better under colonial rule than the Aztecs or Incas, who lived in areas more economically attractive to the conquering Spaniards. The author draws on archives and private collections in Seville, Mexico City, and Yucatan; on linguistic evidence from native language documents; and on archaeological and ethnographic data from sources that include her own fieldwork.
Her innovative book illuminates not only Maya history and culture but also the nature and functioning of premodern agrarian societies in general and their processes of sociocultural change, especially under colonial rule.
