Converting words: Maya in the age of the cross
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1. Verfasser: Hanks, William F. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press ©2010
Schriftenreihe:Anthropology of Christianity 6
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Online-Zugang:DE-1046
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-414) and index
Introduction : the field of discourse production -- Part I. The scope of reducción -- Perpetual reducción in a land of frontiers -- To make themselves new men -- Part II. Converting words -- From field to genre and habitus -- First words : from Spanish to Maya -- Commensuration : Maya as a matrix language -- The grammar of reducción and the art of speaking -- The canonical word -- Part III: Into the breach : the dispersion of Maya reducido -- The scripted landscape -- Petitions as prayers in the field of reducción -- Cross talk in the books of Chilam Balam -- Epilogue : full circle
This pathbreaking synthesis of history, anthropology, and linguistics gives an unprecedented view of the first two hundred years of the Spanish colonization of the Yucatec Maya. Drawing on an extraordinary range and depth of sources, William F. Hanks documents for the first time the crucial role played by language in cultural conquest: how colonial Mayan emerged in the age of the cross, how it was taken up by native writers to become the language of indigenous literature, and how it ultimately became the language of rebellion against the system that produced it. Converting Words includes origi
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 439 pages)
ISBN:0520944917
1282463179
9780520944916
9781282463172

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