Becoming Maya: Ethnicity and Social Inequality in Yucat?n Since 1500

by Wolfgang Gabbert

In Mexico's Yucat n peninsula, it is commonly held that the population consists of two ethnic communities: Maya Indians and descendants of Spanish conquerors. As a result, the history of the region is usually seen in terms of conflict between conquerors and conquered that too often ignores the complexity of interaction between these groups and the complex nature of identity within them. Yet despite this prevailing view, most speakers of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816523169
• ISBN13: 9780816523160
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.7"