Maya Society under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival

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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

Winner of the 1985 Albert J. Beveridge Award in American History, American Historical Association Winner of the 1985 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Award, American Society for Ethnohistory Winner of the 1985 Herbert Eugene Bolton Memorial Prize, Conference on Latin American History "[T]his book deserves to become a classic because it is not only the best book on colonial Yucatan but also one of the best ever on Mesoamerica?. Its strongest point is that it is sheer scholarship, well conceived, researched, and written by one whose intellectual vision transcends the narrowing and arbitrary boundaries that separate the various academic disciplines in the social sciences and humanities."--Joseph A. Whitecotton, American Historical Review "[A] remarkably comprehensive, impressive piece of work which opens a new era in our approach to the history of Indian society under Spanish rule."--David Brading, Times Literary Supplement