The Teabo Manuscript: Maya Christian Copybooks, Chilam Balams, and Native Text Production in Yucatán

by Mark Z. Christensen

Winner, LASA Mexico Humanities Book Prize, 2017

Among the surviving documents from the colonial period in Mexico are rare Maya-authored manuscript compilations of Christian texts, translated and adapted into the Maya language and worldview, which were used to evangelize the local population. The Morely Manuscript is well known to scholars, and now The Teabo Manuscript introduces an additional example of what Mark Z. Christensen...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477310819
• ISBN13: 9781477310816
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 339 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"