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Yucatan Before and After the Conquest (Native American)

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Friar Diego de Landa did all he may to wipe out Maya culture and civilization. Within the famous auto-de-fe of July 1562 at Mani, as he tells us, he destroyed 5,000 “idols” and burned 27 hieroglyphic rolls. And yet ironically Landa’s book, written in Spain to defend himself against charges of despotic mismanagement, is the one significant account of Yucatan done Within the early post-Conquest era. As the celebrated Maya scholar William Gates states in his introduction, “ninety-nine percent of what we these days know of the Mayas, we all know as the outcome either of what Landa has told us Within the pages that follow, or have learned Within the use and study of what he told.” Yucatan Before and After the Conquest is the primary English translation of this crucial work.

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