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The Maya World

The Maya World

Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550-1850

by Matthew Restall
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/02/1999

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This pathbreaking work is a social and cultural history of the Maya peoples of the province of Yucatan in colonial Mexico, spanning the period from shortly after the Spanish conquest of the region to its incorporation as part of an independent Mexico. Instead of depending on the Spanish sources and perspectives that have formed the basis of previous scholarship on colonial Yucatan, the author aims to give a voice to the Maya themselves, basing his analysis entirely on his translations of hundreds of Yucatec Maya notarial documents from libraries and archives in Mexico, Spain, and the United States most of which have never before received scholarly attention.
ISBN:
9780804736589
9780804736589
Category:
Social & cultural anthropology
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-02-1999
Language:
English
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
476
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x26mm
Weight:
0.64kg
Matthew Restall

Matthew Restall was born in London, and educated at Oxford and at UCLA. He is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History and Director of Latin American Studies at the Pennsylvania State University.

He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, the John Carter Brown Library, the Library of Congress, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

He has written twenty books and sixty articles and essays on the histories of the Mayas, of Africans in Spanish America, and of the Spanish Conquest. He has four daughters and is married to the art historian Amara Solari.

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