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Maya lords and lordship : the formation of colonial society in Yucatán, 1350-1600 / by Sergio Quezada ; translated by Terry Rugeley.
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Quezada, Sergio
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Pueblos y caciques yucatecos, 1550-1580.
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2014]
©2014
Description
xv, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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F1435.3.P7 Q4913 2014
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Mayas
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Politics and government
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Mayas
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Kings and rulers
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Yucatán (Mexico : State)
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History
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16th century
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Indigenous Studies
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Summary note
When the Spanish arrived in Yucatán in 1526, they found an established political system based on lordship, a system the Spanish initially integrated into their colonial rule, but ultimately dismantled. In Maya Lords and Lordship, Sergio Quezada builds on the work of earlier scholars and reexamines Yucatec Maya political and social power, arguing that it operated not over territory, as previous scholars assumed, but rather through interpersonal relationships. The changes to Maya culture imposed by Franciscan friars and Spanish lords worked to unravel the networks of personal ties that had empowered the highest Maya lords, and political power devolved to second-tier Maya lords. By 1600 Spanish rule had fragmented what was left of the interpersonal networks, draining power from the indigenous political structure. Building on Quezada's seminal 1993 study, Maya Lords and Lordship offers a fundamentally new vision of Maya political power, challenging the established views of anthropologists and ethnohistorians. Grounded in archival sources as well as historical and ethnographic literature, Quezada's insights and conclusions will influence studies of the Postclassic and sixteenth-century Maya periods.-- Provided by Publisher.
Notes
Revised translation of: Pueblos y caciques yucatecos, 1550-1580. 1993.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-243) and index.
Language note
Translated from Spanish.
Contents
Introduction
Personal ties and Maya political organization
From lordship to early colonial pueblo
Gobernadores and Indian cabildos
Decline of the caciques
Conclusion
Appendix A. The cúuchcabalob of the mid-sixteenth century
Appendix B. Lineages, caciques, and gobernadores
Sources for appendices A and B
Appendix C. Major Spanish urban centers and their jurisdictions
Appendix D. Sixteenth-century governors of Yucatâan : names, titles, and tenure.
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9780806144221 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
080614422X ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2013019099
OCLC
847529166
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