Title: Last rites for the Tipu Maya : genetic structuring in a colonial cemetery /
Authors: Jacobi, Keith P.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Mayas Anthropometry Belize Tipu.; Dental anthropology Belize Tipu.; Mayas Funeral customs and rites Belize Tipu.; Tipu (Belize) Population.
Contents: Spanish missions and the history of Tipu -- 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.