Return to Ixil
Subtitle: Maya Society in an Eighteenth-Century Yucatec Town
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781607329213
Subjects: Mayas; Indians of mexico, history; Indians of mexico, social conditions; Wills; Mexico, social life and customs
Description: "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.