Author: Restall, Matthew
Title: The Maya World : Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550 - 1850
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1997). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xiv, 441 pp. Textual maps & tables.. Minor rubbing. Some light page-edge soil. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Identity & Organization: The Cah: Identity; Entity; Names; Government; Politics: Faction, Office & Career; Society & Culture: Class; Daily Life; Inheritance; Gender; Sexuality; Religion; Land & Material Culture: Settlement; Economic & Material Culture; Land Description; Tenure & Exchange; Conflict & Conquest; Literacy & Language: Notarial Purpose & Style; Petitions; Election Records; Quasi-Notarial Genres; Language; Conclusion; Appendices: Six Maya Notarial Documents; Incidence of Maya Patronyms in Nine Nahob; Cabildo Officers of Eight Cahob; Wealth & Inheritance in Ixil, Cacalchen, & Nine Other Cahob; The Material World of the Cah: Property Items in Maya Testaments from Four Cahob, 1640 - 1835; Spanish Loanwords & Phrases in Maya Notarial Documents.

Keywords: Colonial Mexico, Mayas Government, Ethnography, Ethnology Political, Historical Legal, Social Anthropology, History Notarial, Latin America, Yucatec Yucatan