When the Spanish arrived in Yucatan in 1526, they found an established political system based on lordship, a system the Spanish initially integrated into their colonial rule, but ultimately dismantled. In Maya Lords and Lordship, Sergio Quezada builds on the work of earlier scholars and reexamines Yucatec Maya political and social power, arguing that it operated not over territory, as previous scholars assumed, but rather through interpersonal relationships.
The changes to Maya culture imposed by Franciscan friars and Spanish lords worked to unravel the networks of...
When the Spanish arrived in Yucatan in 1526, they found an established political system based on lordship, a system the Spanish initially integrat...
