{"product_id":"return-to-ixil-mark-z-christensen-9781607329213","title":"Return to Ixil: Maya Society in an Eighteenth-Century Yucatec Town","description":"\u003ci\u003eReturn to Ixil\u003c\/i\u003e is an examination of over 100 colonial-era Maya wills from the Yucatec town of Ixil, presented together and studied fully for the first time. These testaments make up the most significant corpus of Maya-language documents from the colonial period. Offering an unprecedented picture of material and spiritual life in Ixil from 1738 to 1779, they are rare and rich sources for the study of Maya culture and history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Supplemented with additional archival research, the wills provide new and detailed descriptions of various aspects of life in eighteenth-century Ixil. In each chapter, authors Mark Christensen and Matthew Restall examine a different dimension of Ixil's colonial history, including the role of notaries, Maya participation in a coastal militia, economy and modes of production, religious life and records, and the structures and patterns of familial relationships. These details offer insight into the complex network of societies in colonial Yucatan, colonial Mesoamerica, and colonial Latin America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Including an appendix presenting the original Maya texts as well as translations by Christensen and Restall, \u003ci\u003eReturn to Ixil\u003c\/i\u003e not only analyzes the largest body of substantive wills in any Mayan language known today but also provides a rare closeup view of the inner workings of a colonial Maya town and the communal and familial affairs that made up a large part of the Maya colonial experience. It will be of great interest to Mayanists as well as to students and scholars of history, anthropology, ethnohistory, linguistics, and social history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe publication of this book is supported in part by\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrigham Young University and Penn State University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Z. Christensen,Matthew Restall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1607329212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781607329213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Colorado\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/18\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 316\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Mark Z. Christensen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47520558907647,"sku":"9781607329213","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7429786e-340e-488d-8edf-9e6394d0401e.jpg?v=1762885806","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/return-to-ixil-mark-z-christensen-9781607329213","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}