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SAMPLE OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS       

 

Edited Volumes

2009  John F. Chuchiak (with Antje Gunsenheimer and Tsubasa Okoshi Harada) Text and Context: Analyzing Colonial Yucatec Maya Texts and Literature in Diachronic Perspective, Bonner Amerikanistische Studien, Institut für Altamerikanistik und Ethnologie, Universität Bonn, Germany, 2009

Refereed Journal Articles

2010    John F. Chuchiak, “Writing as Resistance: Maya Graphic Pluralism

            and Indigenous Elite Strategies for Survival in Colonial Yucatán

            1550-1750” in journal Ethnohistory, Vol.57:1(Winter 2010):

            87-116.

 

2007   __________, “The Sins of the Fathers: Franciscan Missionaries,

           Parish Priests and the Sexual Conquest of the Yucatec Maya,

           1545–1785” in journal Ethnohistory, Vol. 54:1 (Winter 2007)

           pp. 71–129, Special Edition on Alternative Sexualities & Gender in

           the Colonial Mesoamerica, John F. Chuchiak & Pete Sigal (guest

           edition editors).

 

2006   "El regreso de los autos de fe: Fray Diego de Landa y la extirpación

            de idolatrías en Yucatán” in Península: Revista semestral de la

            Coordinación de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de

            México, Vol. 1, Núm.0, 2006, pp. 29–47

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

2002   ________, “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.

 

Book Chapters/Articles: 

 

 

2009    John F. Chuchiak, "De Descriptio Idolorum: An Ethnohistorical

             Examination of the Production, Imagery, and Functions of Colonial

             Yucatec Maya Idols and Effigy Censers, 1540–1700” in Maya

             Worldview at Conquest, University Press of Colorado, Timothy

             Pugh & Leslie Cecil, (eds), 2009, pp. 135-158.

 

2009      (with David Tavarez) “Conversion and The Spiritual Conquest of

               the New World,” in Lee Penyak and Walter J. Petry (editors)

               Religion and Society in Latin America: Interpretive Essays from

               the Conquest to the Twenty-first Century, (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis

               Books, 2009), pp. 66-82.

 

2006    "Fide, non Armis: Franciscan Reducciones and the Maya Mission  

              Experience, on the colonial Frontier of Yucatán, 1602–1640” in

              John F. Schwaller (editor), St. Francis in America: The Franciscan

              Experience in the Americas, Academy of American Franciscan

              History, 2006, pp. 119–142.

 

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.

 

 

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.