Last rites for the Tipu Maya : genetic structuring in a colonial cemetery / Keith P. Jacobi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobi, Keith P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mayas--Anthropometry--Belize--Tipu.

Mayas.

Dental anthropology--Belize--Tipu.

Dental anthropology.

Mayas--Funeral customs and rites--Belize--Tipu.

Tipu (Belize)--Population.

Tipu (Belize).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (399 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jacobi's groundbreaking osteology study uncovers the history of the Tipu Maya of Belize and their subsequent contact with the Spanish conquistadores and missionaries. Two cultures collided at Tipu, Belize, in the 1600's: that of the native Maya and that of the Spanish missionaries, who arrived with an agenda of religious subjugation and, ultimately, political control. Combining historical documentation with the results of an archaeological exploration of a Tipu cemetery, Keith Jacobi provides an account of the meshing of these two cultures and the assimilation of Catholic

Contents:

Spanish missions and the history of Tipu Maya

European Catholic and Spanish Catholic burial practices

The Catholic and Maya worlds collide

Dental genetics and non-metric and metric traits

From skeletal dancers to regimented corpses of the Catholic way

Open the church and see all the people

Life and death at Tipu

The last will and testament of the Tipu Maya.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-378) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8090-6

OCLC:

183318042