Title Return to Ixil : Maya society in an eighteenth-century Yucatec town / Mark Christensen and Matthew Restall

Published Louisville : University Press of Colorado, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Notaries and the making of testaments in Ixil -- Defending and governing Ixil -- Ixil's economic life -- God in Ixil -- Family in Ixil Summary "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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 18, 2019) Subject Wills -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- Social conditions -- 18th century -- Sources Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources Mayas -- Social conditions -- 18th century -- Sources Mayas -- History -- 18th century -- Sources SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. Indians of Mexico Indians of Mexico -- Social conditions Manners and customs Mayas Mayas -- Social conditions Wills SUBJECT Ixil (Mexico) -- Social life and customs Ixil (Mexico) -- History Subject Mexico -- Yucatán (State) Genre/Form History Sources Form Electronic book Author Restall, Matthew, 1964- author. ISBN 1607329220 9781607329220

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