TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jacobi,Keith P.
TI  - Last rites for the Tipu Maya: genetic structuring in a colonial cemetery 
SN  - 9780817380908
AV  - F1435.3.A56 J33 2000eb
U1  - 972.82/5 22
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Tuscaloosa
PB  - University of Alabama Press
KW  - Mayas
KW  - Anthropometry
KW  - Belize
KW  - Tipu
KW  - Dental anthropology
KW  - Funeral customs and rites
KW  - Anthropométrie
KW  - Anthropologie dentaire
KW  - Rites et cérémonies funéraires
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Population
KW  - Tipu (Belize)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-378) and index; Spanish missions and the history of Tipu Maya -- European Catholic and Spanish Catholic burial practices -- The Catholic and Maya worlds collide -- Dental genetics and non-metric and metric traits -- From skeletal dancers to regimented corpses of the Catholic way -- Open the church and see all the people -- Life and death at Tipu -- The last will and testament of the Tipu Maya; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - Jacobi's groundbreaking osteology study uncovers the history of the Tipu Maya of Belize and their subsequent contact with the Spanish conquistadores and missionaries. Two cultures collided at Tipu, Belize, in the 1600s: that of the native Maya and that of the Spanish missionaries, who arrived with an agenda of religious subjugation and, ultimately, political control. Combining historical documentation with the results of an archaeological exploration of a Tipu cemetery, Keith Jacobi provides an account of the meshing of these two cultures and the assimilation of Catholic practices by the Tipu
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