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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2010.
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| Colección: | Anthropology of Christianity ;
6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 439 p.). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-414) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520944916 0520944917 1282463179 9781282463172 9786612463174 6612463171 |