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SAMPLE OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS 

CHUCHIAK DISSERTATION

Refereed Journal Articles

2002    John F. Chuchiak, “Toward a Regional Definition of Idolatry:

            Reexamining Idolatry Trials in the Relaciones de Meritos and their

            role in defining the Concept of Idolatria en Colonial Yucatán,

            1570-1780,” in Journal of Early Modern History, Volume 6, No. 2,

            pp. 1-29.

 

2002   _________  and Matthew Restall, "A Re-evaluation of the Authenticity of Fr. Diego de Landa's Relación de las Cosas de Yucatán," in Ethnohistory: Journal of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Vol. 49:3, pp. 651-670.

 

2003  ________, Victoria Bricker, Gaby Vail, et al, “New Perspectives on the Madrid Codex,” in Current Anthropology, Volume 44, No. 5 (Fall 2003), pp. 105s-112s.

 

2004   __________,"‘It is their Drinking that Hinders Them’: Balché          

            and the Use of Ritual Intoxicants among the Colonial Yucatec    

            Maya, 1550-1780” in Estudios de Cultura Maya, Vol.XXIV, Centro

            de Estudios Mayas, México: Instituto de Investigaciones

            Filológicas, (Fall 2004), pp.1-43.

 

 

2005   __________, "In Servitio Dei: Fray Diego de Landa, The Franciscan

           Order, and the Return of the Extirpation of Idolatry in the Colonial

            Diocese of Yucatán, 1573-1579," in The Americas, Volume 61:4

            (April 2005), pp. 611-646.

 

 

Book Chapters/Articles: 

 

2000      John F. Chuchiak, "Intellectuals, Indians and the Press: The

              Politicization of Justo Sierra O' Reilly's Journalism and the Views

              on the Maya while in the United States," in Strange Pilgrimages:

              Travel, Exile and Foreign Residency in the Creation of Latin

              American Identity, edited by Karen Racine and Ingrid Fey, Jaguar

              Series, Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2000, pp. 59-72. 

 

 

2004    _____________, "Papal Bulls, Extirpators and the Madrid

            Codex: The Content and Probable Provenience of the Madrid 56

            Patch," In The Madrid Codex: New Approaches to Understanding

            an Ancient Maya Manuscript, Gabrielle Vail and Anthony F. Aveni,

            (eds.) University of Colorado Press, pp. 74-114.