The Maya world
Subtitle: Yucatec culture and society, 1550-1850
By: Matthew Restall.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
Subjects: Mayas -- Social life and customs.; Mayas -- Politics and government.; Mayas -- History -- Sources.
Description: "Sophisticated study resting on a foundation of the analysis of postcontact indigenous language documentation ranging from notarial records to primordial titles. Author is interested in charting the persistence and evolution after the Spanish invasion of the Maya cahob, or self-governing communities, as well as the chibal, or extended family lineage.  He does so with skill and aplomb, producing a major work of ethnohistorical analysis"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-434) and index.