Los bienes de comunidad en Yucatán al final del siglo XVIII: el caso de Izamal

Abstract

In this paper, we study the administration of the community goods of yucatec towns during colonial period and we analyze the “Matricula y cuenta de comunidad de los indios de la cabecera y pueblo de Izamal de 1795”, document located in the Archivo General de la Nacion of Mexico. “The Matricula y cuenta” is along with Buczotz and Pixila (previous documents in the same record), the only ones of its kind that we had been found for the yucatec towns of the eighteenth century. With this work, we contribute to increase the researches of this topic, and we corroborate the general interpretations proposed about the administration of those gods; also, we present the particularities of Izamal “community found” and we understand the ties of community identity of this town during this period.