9 The Caste War in the 1970's: Present-Day Accounts from Village Quintana Roo

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Introduction XI
3. Part One Continuity and Change in Maya Ethnic Boundaries
4. 1. A Proposal for Constituting a Maya Subgroup, Cultural and Linguistic, in the Peten and Adjacent Regions 1
5. 2 The Francisco Perez Probanza of 1654-1656 and the Matricula of Tipu (Belize) 43
6. 3 The Maya and the Colonization of Belize in the Nineteenth Century 69
7. Part Two Process of Adaptation in Maya Society
8. 4 Independent Maya of the Late Nineteenth Century: Chiefdoms and Power Politics 103
9. 5 Levels of Settlement Alliance among the San Pedro Maya of Western Belize and Eastern Peten, 1857-1936 139
10. 6 Internal Migration in Yucatan: Interpretation of Historical Demography and Current Patterns 191
11. 7 The Maestros Cantores in Yucatan 233
12. Part Three Maya Views of History
13. 8 The Caste War of Yucatan: The History of a Myth and the Myth of History 251
14. 9 The Caste War in the 1970's: Present-Day Accounts from Village Quintana Roo 259
15. 10 Historical Dimensions of Orientation to Change in a Yucatec Peasant Community 275
16. Notes on the Contributors 289
17. Bibliography 293
18. Index 317