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    This article explores whether documentary evidence from early colonial Guatemala provides evidence of closed corporate community as an organizing principle for basic Highland Maya social groups during the Late Postclassic period (c. AD 1200-1524). The existence of closed corporate community both historically and currently raises questions about cultural continuity and change resulting from the Spanish conquest. The study examines culture as the accumulation of human experiences that guide thinking and behavior of social groups over time.

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    This article explores whether documentary evidence from early colonial Guatemala provides evidence of closed corporate community as an organizing principle for basic Highland Maya social groups during the Late Postclassic period (c. AD 1200-1524). The existence of closed corporate community both historically and currently raises questions about cultural continuity and change resulting from the Spanish conquest. The study examines culture as the accumulation of human experiences that guide thinking and behavior of social groups over time.

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    CHINAMIT AND MOLAB:

    LATE POSTCLASSIC HIGID..AND


    MAYA PRECURSORS OF CLOSED
    CORPORATE COMMUNITY

    Robert M. HILL II
    University of Texas at San Antonio

    This article explores the extent to which documentary evidence from


    the early Colonial period in Guatemala can be used to demonstrate
    the existance of closed corporate community as an organizing prin-
    ciple of basic Highland Maya socio-cultural units during the Late
    Postclassic period (ca. AD 1200-1524) . Our ability to detect various
    aspects of closed corporate community among the ancient Highland
    Maya allows a more ethnographic characterization of Late Post-
    classic society, particularly at the non-elite level. The existance of
    closed corporate community as a principle of organization both
    during the Late Postclassic and today also raises questions of conti-
    nuity and the extent of cultural change brought about as the results
    of the Spanish conquest and colonization.
    The present study takes as its base a concept of culture that is
    less concerned with so-called traits or elements than it is with the
    ways in which they are organized. Specifically, culture is thought
    of here as:

    " ... the accumulation of human events through time, directly


    experienced by members of a specific social grou,p, from which
    the living members derive assumptiO>ns and create principles to
    guide their thinking and behavior". (Reina 1973: xviii).

    Principles may be thought of as ..vays or organizing elements and


    behavior. Accordingly, individual elements may be substituted for,

    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984


    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/
    Estudios de Cultura Maya. Vol. XV, 1984
    Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas/
    Centro de Estudios Mayas, UNAM
    http://www.iifilologicas.unam.mx/estculmaya/

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