Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517–1570

by Inga Clendinnen

• ISBN13: 9780521820318
• ISBN10: 0521820316
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-19
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

"Inga Clendinnen has written a remarkable book about the encounters of Spaniards and Maya peoples of the Yucatan Peninsula during the sixteenth century. Like the self-conscious categories used by the actors, separate halves of the book are devoted to the Spaniards and the Mayas, but at nearly every point Clendinnen connects the two histories and shows their interrelationships. People on both sides were changed, even transformed (when they were not destroyed) but she shows that in fun-damental perceptions and boundaries, they remained true to their past. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Inga Clendinnen is Emeritus Scholar in History at La Trobe University

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	xii
Preface to the second edition	xiii
Preface to the first edition	xv
Acknowledgments	xvii
Part I: Spaniards	1	(128)
Explorers	3	(17)
Conquerors	20	(18)
Settlers	38	(7)
Missionaries	45	(12)
Conflict	57	(15)
Crisis	72	(21)
Attrition	93	(19)
Retrospections	112	(17)
Epilogue: The hall of mirrors	127	(2)
Part II: Indians	129	(66)
Finding out	131	(8)
Connections	139	(15)
Continuities	154	(7)
Assent	161	(34)
Epilogue: Confusion of tongues	190	(5)
Appendix: A sampler of documents	195	(15)
Diego de Landa's indictment of the Sotuta Indians	195	(2)
The confessions	197	(13)
Glossary of Spanish and Maya terms	210	(2)
Notes	212	(18)
Select bibliography	230	(10)
Index	240