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Indigenous languages, politics, and authority in Latin America : historical and ethnographic perspectives /

This volume makes a vital and original contribution to a topic that lies at the intersection of the fields of history, anthropology, and linguistics. The book is the first to consider Indigenous languages as vehicles of political orders in Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present, acr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Durston, Alan, 1970- (Editor ), Mannheim, Bruce (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "The discourse of my life": what language can do (early colonial views on Quechua) / Sabine MacCormack
  • Colonial written culture in the Coixtlahuaca Basin, Oaxaca, Mexico / Bas van Doesburg
  • The politics of the Aztec histories / Camilla Townsend
  • Toward a Guarani semantic history: political vocabulary in Guarani (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries) / Capucine Boidin and Angéca Otazú Melgarejo
  • Quechua-language government propaganda in 1920s Peru / Alan Durston
  • Mayan languages: a new dawn? / Judith M. Maxwell
  • Xavier Albó's "the future of the oppressed languages in the Andes," revisited / Bruce Mannheim
  • Building differences: the (re)production of hierarchical relations among women in the Southern Andes / Margarita Huayhua.