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Return to Ixil Maya Society in an Eighteenth-Century Yucatec Town / Mark Christensen and Matthew Restall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Christensen, Mark Z., author.
- Restall, Matthew, 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wills--Mexico--Yucatán (State).
- Wills.
- Indians of Mexico--Mexico--Yucatán (State)--Social conditions--18th century--Sources.
- Indians of Mexico.
- Indians of Mexico--Mexico--Yucatán (State)--History--18th century--Sources.
- Mayas--Social conditions--18th century--Sources.
- Mayas.
- Mayas--History--18th century--Sources.
- Ixil (Mexico)--Social life and customs.
- Ixil (Mexico).
- Ixil (Mexico)--History.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (317 pages) : color illustrations
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019
- Place of Publication:
- Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2019]
- Summary:
- "An examination of 100+ previously unstudied colonial-era Maya wills from the Yucatec town of Ixil. These testaments--some of the only surviving documentation of colonial inhabitation--offer unprecedented depictions of material and spiritual life from 1738 to 1779 and are rare and rich resources of Maya language"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Notaries and the making of testaments in Ixil
- Defending and governing Ixil
- Ixil's economic life
- God in Ixil
- Family in Ixil.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781607329220
- 1607329220
- OCLC:
- 1122908854
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