Colonial Cakchiquels: Highland Maya Adaptations to Spanish Rule, 1600-1700 Book

	Foreword
	Preface
Ch. 1	A Commemoration	1
	Fiesta del Volcan (Festival of the Volcano)	1
	Commentary	4
	Bibliographic Note	8
Ch. 2	Background	11
	Highland Guatemala	11
	The Cakchiquels and Maya Civilization	15
	The Spanish Conquest	19
	A Word on Sources	23
	Bibliographic Note	25
Ch. 3	The Social Universe	26
	Population	26
	Stratification	31
	Kinship and Family	31
	The Pirir Family	33
	Parcialidades	38
	Pueblos	43
	Town Formation in Sacapulas	44
	The Seventeenth Century	46
	Bibliographic Note	47
Ch. 4	Land	48
	Principles of Land Tenure	48
	Landholding Skategies	51
	The Pirir Family	53
	Calpul Ya Jonica	56
	Indians of Xenacoj versus the Town of San Martin Jilotepeque	57
	Diego Perez Xpantzay and the Poroma Parcialidad	60
	Conclusions	64
	Bibliographic Note	64
Ch. 5	Material Life	65
	Crops and Diet	65
	Houses, Domestic Equipment, and House Life	70
	Dress	72
	Imported Technologies	75
	Production and Distribution	79
	The Pirir Family: A Seventeenth-Century Success Story	83
	Bibliographic Note	85
Ch. 6	Belief and Ritual	86
	Time	87
	The Self	88
	Beings	91
	Xahobal Che (The Tree Dance, or Voladores)	97
	Ritual Practitioners	100
	Sorcery	103
	The Cult of San Pascual	105
	Bibliographic Note	108
Ch. 7	Serving the Conquerors	109
	Slavery	109
	Encomienda	110
	Repartimiento	111
	Tribute	114
	Sport of the Church	115
	Illegal Exploitation	116
	The Cost of Service	119
	Bibliographic Note	120
Ch. 8	Resisting the Conquerors	121
	Flight	121
	"Weapons of the Weak"	123
	Brokers and Barriers	124
	Writing	127
	Titulos and Litigation	135
	Bibliographic Note	137
Ch. 9	Patan: The Burdens of Life	138
	Birth and Childhood	139
	Marriage	141
	Burdens of Adulthood	143
	Illness	143
	Dying and Bequeathing	146
	Bibliographic Note	149
Ch. 10	Trends of the Later Colonial Period and Beyond	150
	The Failure of Hispanicization	150
	Peasantization and Development of the Civil-Religious Hierarchy	153
	The Development of Communities	155
	The Demise of Parcialidades in Eighteenth-Century Tecpan	158
	Land and Labor in the Later Nineteenth Century	160
	For the Future	162
	Bibliographic Note	163