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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 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 of interlocking systems, from ecology and modes ofsubsistence through the corporate family and the community to the realmof the sacred. She shows how the Maya adapted to Spanish domination,changing in ways that embodied Maya principles as they applied theirtraditional 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.

Acculturation --- Indians of Mexico --- Mayas --- Indians of North America --- Indigenous peoples --- Meso-America --- Meso-American Indians --- Mesoamerica --- Mesoamerican Indians --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- Maya Indians --- Mayans --- Indians of Central America --- Culture contact --- Development education --- Civilization --- Culture --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Cultural fusion --- History --- Social conditions --- Mexico --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Kolonialismus --- Kultur --- Historia da america --- Indios. --- Maias. --- Mayas. --- Indians of Mexico. --- Acculturation. --- cultura (mentalidade) --- Maya. --- Indianer. --- Halbinsel Yucatán --- Mexico. --- Descriptive sociology --- Social history --- Sociology --- Anáhuac --- Estados Unidos Mexicanos --- Maxico --- Méjico --- Mekishiko --- Meḳsiḳe --- Meksiko --- Meksyk --- Messico --- Mexique (Country) --- República Mexicana --- Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku --- United Mexican States --- United States of Mexico --- מקסיקו --- メキシコ --- Culture contact (Acculturation) --- History of Latin America --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Yucatán --- Kolonialbestrebungen --- Kolonialpolitik --- Kolonialisierung --- Imperialismus --- Kolonie --- Antikolonialismus --- Kolonialmacht --- Entkolonialisierung --- Europa --- Industries --- Mexique --- Yukatan --- Halbinsel