Rugeley, Terry (Editor). - Maya Wars: Ethnographic Accounts from Nineteenth-Century Yucatán.

Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 0806133554. BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. 4to. Pp. xiv, 224. Plus 7 unnumbered pages of illustrations, bound in the text. With one full-page map, 11 halftone illustrations (some full-page); chronology, notes, glossary, bibliographical essay, index. HARDCOVER, brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust-jacket. ~ FIRST EDITION. The first collection of documents devoted entirely to the nineteenth-century Yucatec Mayas. Includes writings by priests, missionaries, Hispanic officials and military officers, foreign travellers and explorers, and the Mayas themselves. Provides an unparalleled window into the daily lives of the rural Mayas, the book covers social organization, religion, family life, agriculture, recreation, military readiness, and medicinal beliefs and practices. In addition, rare captivity narratives offer insight into the experiences of prisoners of war held by Caste War rebels. Q-3 .

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