Converting Words : Maya in the Age of the Cross /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hanks, William F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Catholic Church
Église catholique > Missions > Mexique > Yucatán (État)
Catholic Church > Missions > Mexico > Yucatan (State)
Catholic Church > Missions > Mexico > Yucatán (State)
Missions
Mayas > Religion
Interfaith relations
Colonies > Administration
Christianity and culture
Christianity
Catechisms, Spanish
Spanish colonies.
HISTORY > Latin America > General.
RELIGION > Ethnic & Tribal.
Christianisme > Relations > Mexique > Yucatán (État)
Mayas > Colonisation.
Mayas > Religion.
Catechisms, Spanish.
Spanish language > Mexico > Yucatán (State) > Influence on Maya.
Maya language > Mexico > Yucatán (State) > Influence on Spanish.
Christianity and culture > Mexico > Yucatán (State)
Christianity and other religions > Mexico > Yucatán (State)
Mayas > Colonization.
Spain
Mexico > Yucatán (State)
Mexico
America.
Espagne > Colonies > Amerique > Administration.
Mexique > Histoire > 1540-1810 (Colonie espagnole)
Spain > Colonies > America > Administration.
Mexico > History > Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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