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Lowland Maya native society and Spanish contact
handbook of middle american indians : archaeology of southern mesoamerica, part two, volume • Austin • Published In 1965 • Pages: 659-678, 991-1028
By: Roys, Ralph Loveland.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a brief culture summary of Postclassic Maya ethnography at the time of early Spanish contacts. The data cover population size, subsistence activities, social organization, marriage, land tenure, inheritance, personal dress and adornment, the fine arts, the life cycle, political organization, warfare, and religion. A lengthy bibliography is included at the end of this work.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Topography and geology
- Normal garb
- Real property
- Inheritance
- External trade
- Classes
- Household
- Lineages
- Warfare
- Sacred objects and places
- Revelation and divination
- Ordering of time
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Postclassic Maya
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2001
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Maya Area
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1100 BP-450 BP(900 A.D.-1550 A.D.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Yucatan peninsula, Mexico
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ralph L. Roys
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 991-1028)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 64010316
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mayas--Antiquities