Return to Ixil : Maya society in an eighteenth-century Yucatec town /

An examination of more than 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 resou...

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