{"product_id":"maya-society-under-colonial-rule-the-collective-enterprise-of-survival-9780691101583","title":"Maya Society Under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaya Society Under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival\u003c\/strong\u003e by Farriss, Nancy Marguerite. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780691101583.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book traces the history of the Maya Indians of Yucatan, Mexico,\nduring a four-hundred-year period from late preconquest times through\nthe end of Spanish rule in 1821. Nancy Farriss combines the tools of the\nhistorian and the anthropologist to reconstruct colonial Maya society and\nculture as a web of interlocking systems, from ecology and modes of\nsubsistence through the corporate family and the community to the realm\nof the sacred. She shows how the Maya adapted to Spanish domination,\nchanging in ways that embodied Maya principles as they applied their\ntraditional collective strategies for survival to the new challenges; they fared better under colonial rule than the Aztecs or Incas, who lived in areas more economically attractive to the conquering Spaniards.\n\nThe author draws on archives and private collections in Seville, Mexico City, and Yucatan; on linguistic evidence from native language documents; and on archaeological and ethnographic data from sources that include her own fieldwork. Her innovative book illuminates not only Maya history and culture but also the nature and functioning of premodern agrarian societies in general and their processes of sociocultural change, especially under colonial rule.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44977908318261,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691101582","price":35.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691101583_ba534f68-02f7-41bd-85e6-7eb30f9b52ef.jpg?v=1778865549","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/maya-society-under-colonial-rule-the-collective-enterprise-of-survival-9780691101583","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}