This pathbreaking work is a social and cultural history of the Maya peoples of the province of Yucatan in colonial Mexico, spanning the period from shortly after the Spanish conquest of the region to its incorporation as part of an independent Mexico. Instead of depending on the Spanish sources and perspectives that have formed the basis of previous scholarship on colonial Yucatan, the author aims to give a voice to the Maya themselves, basing his analysis entirely on his translations of hundreds of Yucatec Maya notarial documents from libraries and archives in Mexico, Spain, and the United States most of which have never before received scholarly attention.
- ISBN10 0585062803
- ISBN13 9780585062808
- Publish Date December 1997 (first published 16 October 1997)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Stanford University Press
- Format eBook
- Language English