Language and Ethnicity among the K'ichee' Maya /

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"This book explores the articulation between "accent" and ethnic identification in K'ichee', a Mayan language spoken by more than one million people in the western highlands of Guatemala. Based on years of ethnographic work, it is the first anthropological examination of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Romero, Sergio (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Quiche (Langue) > Aspect social.
Quiche (Indiens) > Langues.
Quiche (Indiens) > Identite ethnique.
Quiche language > Social aspects.
Quiche Indians > Languages.
Quiche Indians > Ethnic identity.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Accent and ethnic identity in the Maya highlands
  • Orthographies, foreigners, and pure K'ichee'
  • "Each town speaks its own language" : the social value of dialectal variation in K'ichee'
  • A "hybrid" language : loanwords and K'ichee'-Spanish code switching
  • "Ancestor power Is Maya power" : the uses and abuses of honorific address in K'ichee'
  • The changing voice of the ancestors : missionaries, poets, and pan-Mayanism.

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