TY - BOOK ID - 77870266 TI - Last rites for the Tipu Maya : genetic structuring in a colonial cemetery PY - 2000 SN - 0817380906 9780817380908 0817310258 9780817310257 0817310258 9780817310257 PB - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, DB - UniCat KW - Mayas KW - Dental anthropology KW - Maya Indians KW - Mayans KW - Indians of Central America KW - Indians of Mexico KW - Dentition KW - Physical anthropology KW - Teeth KW - Funeral customs and rites KW - Anthropometry KW - Tipu (Belize) KW - Population. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77870266 AB - 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 1600's: 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 ER -