English summary: Diego de Landa wrote his description of the Yucatan and Maya people in 1566, having spent fourteen years there as a missionary. This French translation of the original Spanish offers readers Landa's essential text, with a history of the Maya people before their conquest by the Spanish, Yucatec Maya customs and religious practices, the Maya calendar, and a basic vocabulary. This is one of the first ethnographic texts on this...
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