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Converting words : Maya in the age of the cross / William F. Hanks.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hanks, William F.
- Series:
- Anthropology of Christianity ; 6.
- The anthropology of Christianity ; 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mayas--Religion.
- Mayas.
- Mayas--Colonization.
- Christianity and other religions--Mexico--Yucatan (State).
- Christianity and other religions.
- Christianity and culture--Mexico--Yucatan (State).
- Christianity and culture.
- Maya language--Mexico--Yucatan (State)--Influence on Spanish.
- Maya language.
- Spanish language--Mexico--Yucatan (State)--Influence on Maya.
- Spanish language.
- Catechisms, Spanish--Mexico--Yucatan (State).
- Catechisms, Spanish.
- Mexico--History--Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
- Mexico.
- Spain--Colonies--America--Administration.
- Spain.
- Catholic Church--Missions--Mexico--Yucatan (State).
- Catholic Church.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (485 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 original analyses of the linguistic practices of both missionaries and Mayas-as found in bilingual dictionaries, grammars, catechisms, land documents, native chronicles, petitions, and the forbidden Maya Books of Chilam Balam. Lucidly written and vividly detailed, this important work presents a new approach to the study of religious and cultural conversion that will illuminate the history of Latin America and beyond, and will be essential reading across disciplinary boundaries.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction The Field Of Discourse Production
- 2. Perpetual Reducción In A Land Of Frontiers
- 3. To Make Themselves New Men
- 4. From Field To Genre And Habitus
- 5. First Words From Spanish Into Maya
- 6. Commensuration Maya As A Matrix Language
- 7. The Grammar Of Reducción And The Art Of Speaking
- 8. The Canonical Word
- 9. The Scripted Landscape
- 10. Petitions As Prayers In The Field Of Reducción
- 11. Cross Talk In The Books Of Chilam Balam
- Epilogue Full Circle
- Notes
- References Cited
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612463174
- 9781282463172
- 1282463179
- 9780520944916
- 0520944917
- OCLC:
- 529378827
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