Winter 2005	John A. Lucy
Class Meetings: TuTh 1:30-3:00, Judd 313	Phone: 702-3517
Office Hours: TuTh 3:00-4:20 (by appt.)	Office: Judd 450
Prerequisites: None; pref. to HD & Anthro majors	E-mail: jlucy@uchicago.edu

Substantial reading.  Class will consist of discussion of the readings supplemented by lectures.  Students will be asked to bring to each class a written discussion question or criticism arising from the reading.  One half of the grade will be based on these questions.  Students will also be required to write a 20-page paper exploring some problem in Mayan history or ethnography in greater depth.  The aim is that students should consult some additional materials beyond the required readings in the course.  Paper topics should be discussed with and approved by the instructor in advance.  This paper will represent the remaining one half of the grade.

All readings will be on reserve.  Items marked * available at the Seminary Coop Bookstore.

Week    Topic:                                Principal Reading
 1-        Introduction
.1-        Contact and Conquest I:   T. Todorov, The Conquest of America*
 2-        Contact and Conquest II:  T. Todorov, The Conquest of America
 2-        Contact and Conquest III: M. Restall, Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest*
 3-        Settlement and Conversion I:   I. Clendinnen, Ambivalent Conquests*
 3-        Settlement and Conversion II:  M. Restall, Maya Conquistador
 4-        Colonial Order I:   N. Farriss, Maya Society Under Colonial Rule*
 4-        Colonial Order II:  N. Farriss, Maya Society Under Colonial Rule
 5-        Colonial Order III: N. Farriss, Maya Society Under Colonial Rule
 5-        Colonial Order IV: M. Restall, The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550-1850
 6-        Independence and the Caste War I:  N. Reed, The Caste War of Yucatan*
 6-        Independence and the Caste War II: N. Reed, The Caste War of Yucatan
 7-        World Market and Revolution I:  T. Rugeley, Of Wonders and Wise Men*
 7-        World Market and Revolution II: G. Joseph, Revolution from Without*
 8-        Early Twentieth Century Ejido Life I:  R. Redfield & A. Villa, Chan Kom: A Maya Village
 8-        Early Twentieth Century Ejido Life II: R. Redfield & A. Villa, Chan Kom: A Maya Village
 9-        Late Twentieth Century Town Life I:  R. Thompson, The Winds of Tomorrow
 9-        Late Twentieth Century Town Life II: P. Hervik, Mayan People within and beyond Boundaries
10-       Local Village and Global City: A. Re Cruz, The Two Milpas of Chan Kom*

1- 1/04 Introduction
Required (none)

Recommended:
E. Wolf, Sons of the Shaking Earth (esp. chs. 8-11)

1- 1/06 Contact and Conquest I
Required (125 pp):
T. Todorov, The Conquest of America (1-125)

Recommended:
B. Diaz, The Conquest of New Spain (esp. 15-87)
Unknown, The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico (pp. 127-149)

2- 1/11  Contact and Conquest II
Required (130 pp):
T. Todorov, The Conquest of America (126-254)

2- 1/13 Contact and Conquest III
Required (86 pp):
M. Restall, Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest (chs. 1-3, 5: 1-63, 77-99)

Recommended:
I. Clendinnen, "Fierce and unnatural cruelty": Cortés and the conquest of Mexico, in S. Greenblatt (ed.) 1993, New World Encounters (12-47).
S. Cline, Revisionist conquest history: Sahagún's revised Book XII, in J. Klor de Alva, H. Nicholson, and E Quiñones-Keber (eds.) 1988, The Work of Bernardino de Sahagún: Pioneer Ethnographer of Sixteenth-Century Aztec Mexico (93-106).

3- 1/18  Settlement and Conversion I: Spaniard
Required (155 pp):
I. Clendinnen, Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570  (pp. 1-128, 190-207)
G. Foster, The concept of "conquest culture," Culture and Conquest: America's Spanish Heritage (pp. 10-20)

Recommended:
I. Clendinnen, Ambivalent Conquests (pp. 131-189)
R. Chamberlain, The Conquest and Colonization of Yucatan, 1517-1550.
S. Tax, Heritage of Conquest (esp. pp. 17-30)

3- 1/20 Settlement and Conversion II: Maya
Required (48 pp):
M. Restall, Maya Conquistador (pp. TBA)
D. de Landa, Relacion de las cosas de Yucatan (Tozzer translation, pp. 62-64, 85-132)

Recommended
R. Roys, The Indian Background of Colonial Yucatan (1-97)
V. Bricker, The Maya view of the conquest [of Yucatan], in The Indian Christ, the Indian King (pp. 24-28)
W. Hanks, "Discourse Genres in a Theory of Practice" American Ethnologist, 1987, 14(4): 668-692.
F. Scholes and R. Roys, The Maya Chontal Indians of Acalan-Tixchel (pp. 74-122, 383-405)

4- 1/25 Colonial Order I
Required (115 pp):
N. Farriss, Maya Society Under Colonial Rule: The Collective Enterprise of Survival (pp. 3-116)

Recommended:
G. Jones, Maya Resistance to Spanish Rule
S. Kellogg and M. Restall (Eds.), Dead Giveaways: Indigenous Testaments of Colonial Mesoamerica and the Andes

4- 1/27 Colonial Order II
Required (110 pp):
N. Farriss, Maya Society under Colonial Rule (117-226)

5- 2/1 Colonial Order III
Required (124 pp):
N. Farriss, Maya Society under Colonial Rule (227-351)

Recommended:
N. Farriss, Maya Society under Colonial Rule (355-396)

5- 2/3 Colonial Order IV
Required (118 pp)
M. Restall The Maya World: Yucatec Culture and Society, 1550-1850 (1-40, 87-165)

6- 2/8 Independence and the Caste War I
Required (158 pp):
N. Reed, The Caste War of Yucatan (1-158)

Recommended:
T. Rugeley, Yucatán's Maya Peasantry and the Origins of the Caste War
J. Stephens, Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (2 vols) (esp. I: 1-22, 91-93)
G. Jones (ed.), Anthropology and History in Yucatan
D. Dumond, The Machete and the Cross: Campesino Rebellion inn Yucatan

6- 2/10 Independence and the Caste War II
Required (124 pp):
N. Reed, The Caste War of Yucatan (159-282)

Recommended:
V. Bricker, The Indian Christ, The Indian King: The Historical Substrate of Maya Myth and Ritual (pp. 119-125, 185-205, 256, 260-272; also chs. 5, 8)
K. Gosner, Soldiers of the Virgin (106-159)

7- 2/15 World Market and Revolution I
Required (167 pp):
T. Rugeley, Of Wonders and Wise Men: Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 1800-1876 (xiii-xxvii, 1-167)

Recommended:
A. Wells, Yucatan's Gilded Age: Haciendas, Henequen, and International Harvester, 1860-1915
T. Sanders, "Henequen: The Structure of Agrarian Frustration"

7- 2/17 World Market and Revolution II
Required (181 pp):
G. Joseph, Revolution from Without: Yucatán, Mexico, and the United States, 1880-1924 (pts. 1 & 3: 1-89, 185-287)

Recommended:
G. Joseph, Revolution from Without (pt. 2: 90-184)
G. Joseph, Rediscovering the Past at Mexico's Periphery

8- 2/22 Early Twentieth Century Ejido Life I
Required (115 pp):
R. Redfield & A. Villa, Chan Kom: A Maya Village (pp. 1-115)
[copies and photocopy master on reserve]

Recommended:
B. Fallaw, Cárdenas Compromised, The Failure of Reform in Postrevolutionary Yucatán
A. Villa, The Maya of East Central Quintana Roo
R. Redfield, The Folk Culture of Yucatan
D. Rhoads, The Corn Grows Ripe [children's book]

8- 2/24  Early Twentieth Century Ejido Life II
Required (115 pp):
R. Redfield & A. Villa, Chan Kom: A Maya Village (115-230)
[copies and photocopy master on reserve]

Recommended:
R. Redfield, A Village that Chose Progress: Chan Kom Revisited
V. Goldkind, Social stratification in the peasant community: Redfield's Chan Kom reinterpreted, American Anthropologist, 1965, 67(4), 863-884.
P. Sullivan, Unfinished Conversations: Mayas and Foreigners between Two Wars (1-222)

9- 3/1 Late Twentieth Century Town Life I
Required (175 pp):
R. Thompson, The Winds of Tomorrow: Social Change in a Maya Town (1-174) [copies and photocopy master on reserve]

Recommended:
I. Press, Tradition and Adaptation: Life in a Modern Yucatan Maya Village
A. Burns, An Epoch of Miracles: Oral Literature of the Yucatec Maya
J. McGee, Life, Ritual, and Religion Among the Lacandon Maya
Y. Beyene, From Menarche to Menopause: Reproductive Lives of Peasant Women in Two Cultures [chs. 3, 5, 6 on the Yucatec Maya]
E. Moseley & E. Terry (eds.), Yucatan: A World Apart (esp. 122-41, 173-201, 202-44)

9- 3/3 Late Twentieth Century Town Life II
Required (52):
P. Hervik, Mayan People within and beyond Boundaries: Social Categories and Lived Identity in Yucatan (23-36, 91-130)

10- 3/8  Local Ejido and Global City
Required (103 pp):
A. Re Cruz, The Two Milpas of Chan Kom: Scenarios of a Maya Village Life (ch. 3-6: 36-139)

Recommended:
M. Everton: The Modern Maya [photo essay]