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A collection of ten essays that offer interpretations of the survival and adaptation of lowland Maya culture from its earliest contact with the Spanish to the 1970s.

Table of Contents
  • Introduction (Grant D. Jones)
  • Part One. Continuity and Change in Maya Ethnic Boundaries
    • 1. A Proposal for Constituting a Maya Subgroup, Cultural and Linguistic, in the Petén and Adjacent Regions (Sir Eric Thompson)
    • 2. The Francisco Pérez Probanza of 1654–1656 and the Matrícula of Tipu (Belize) (France V. Scholes and Sir Eric Thompson)
    • 3. The Maya and the Colonization of Belize in the Nineteenth Century (O. Nigel Bolland)
  • Part Two. Process of Adaptation in Maya Society
    • 4. Independent Maya of the Late Nineteenth Century: Chiefdoms and Power Politics (D. E. Dumond )
    • 5. Levels of Settlement Alliance among the San Pedro Maya of Western Belize and Eastern Petén, 1857–1936 (Grant D. Jones )
    • 6. Internal Migration in Yucatán: Interpretation of Historical Demography and Current Patterns (James W. Ryder)
    • 7. The Maestros Cantores in Yucatán (Anne C. Collins)
  • Part Three. Maya Views of History
    • 8. The Caste War of Yucatán: The History of a Myth and the Myth of History (Victoria Reifler Bricker )
    • 9. The Caste War in the 1970’s: Present-Day Accounts from Village Quintana Roo (Allan F. Burns )
    • 10. Historical Dimensions of Orientation to Change in a Yucatec Peasant Community (Irwin Press)
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Anthropology and History in Yucat225n

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/02/1977
      ISBN13: 9780292728585, 978-0292728585
      ISBN10: 0292728581

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A collection of ten essays that offer interpretations of the survival and adaptation of lowland Maya culture from its earliest contact with the Spanish to the 1970s.

      Table of Contents
      • Introduction (Grant D. Jones)
      • Part One. Continuity and Change in Maya Ethnic Boundaries
        • 1. A Proposal for Constituting a Maya Subgroup, Cultural and Linguistic, in the Petén and Adjacent Regions (Sir Eric Thompson)
        • 2. The Francisco Pérez Probanza of 1654–1656 and the Matrícula of Tipu (Belize) (France V. Scholes and Sir Eric Thompson)
        • 3. The Maya and the Colonization of Belize in the Nineteenth Century (O. Nigel Bolland)
      • Part Two. Process of Adaptation in Maya Society
        • 4. Independent Maya of the Late Nineteenth Century: Chiefdoms and Power Politics (D. E. Dumond )
        • 5. Levels of Settlement Alliance among the San Pedro Maya of Western Belize and Eastern Petén, 1857–1936 (Grant D. Jones )
        • 6. Internal Migration in Yucatán: Interpretation of Historical Demography and Current Patterns (James W. Ryder)
        • 7. The Maestros Cantores in Yucatán (Anne C. Collins)
      • Part Three. Maya Views of History
        • 8. The Caste War of Yucatán: The History of a Myth and the Myth of History (Victoria Reifler Bricker )
        • 9. The Caste War in the 1970’s: Present-Day Accounts from Village Quintana Roo (Allan F. Burns )
        • 10. Historical Dimensions of Orientation to Change in a Yucatec Peasant Community (Irwin Press)
      • Notes on the Contributors
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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