Converting words :: Maya in the age of the cross /

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 pla...

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1. Verfasser: Hanks, William F.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
Schriftenreihe:Anthropology of Christianity ; 6.
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Zusammenfassung: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 resource (xxiii, 439 p.).
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-414) and index.
ISBN:9780520944916
0520944917
1282463179
9781282463172
9786612463174
6612463171

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