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Becoming Maya : Ethnicity and Social Inequality in Yucatán Since 1500
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
Details
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2004
- ©2004
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9780816550814, 9780816523160, 9780816523160
- OCLC
- on1342503069
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-243) and index.
- Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Ethnicity in Yucatan - Concepts and State ofthe Art -- Part I. The Conquest of Yucatán and the Development of Colonial Rule, 1500-1821: Tribute Economy and Estate Stratification -- 1. Conquest and Colonial Rule -- 2. Demography and Social Structure -- 3. Group Consciousness -- Part II. From Independence to Revolution, 1821-1910: The Caste War and the Development of a Monocrop Economy -- 4. Economic Development -- 5. The Caste War -- 6. Social Inequality and Social Categories -- Part III. From the Mexican Revolution to the Present: Revolution, Social Mobility, and Structural Violence -- 7. Economy and Politics since 1915 -- 8. Ethnic Discourses, 1915-40 -- 9. Education and Language Policies since the Revolution -- 10. Social Categories and Status Symbols -- 11. The Chenes Region -- 12. Ethnicity and Social Inequality in Yucatan-a Summary -- Notes -- Sources and Secondary Literature -- Index
Subjects
- Social status -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- History.
- Social classes -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- History.
- Mayas -- Politics and government.
- Mayas -- Social conditions.
- Mayas -- Ethnic identity.
- Mexico -- History -- 1821-1861
- Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
- Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Colonization.
- Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- History -- Caste War, 1847-1855.