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Converting words [electronic resource] : Maya in the age of the cross / William F. Hanks.
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TextSeries: Anthropology of Christianity ; 6.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 439 p.) : illISBN: - 9780520944916 (electronic bk.)
- 0520944917 (electronic bk.)
- Mayas -- Religion
- Mayas -- Colonization
- Christianity and other religions -- Mexico -- Yucat�an (State)
- Christianity and culture -- Mexico -- Yucat�an (State)
- Maya language -- Influence on Spanish -- Mexico -- Yucat�an (State)
- Spanish language -- Influence on Maya -- Mexico -- Yucat�an (State)
- Catechisms, Spanish
- Catholic Church -- Missions -- Mexico -- Yucat�an (State)
- Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810
- Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration
- RELIGION -- Ethnic & Tribal
- 299.7/84215 22
- F1435.3.R3 H36 2010
Contents:
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 origi
Cover; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; PART I: THE SCOPE OF REDUCCION; 2. Perpetual Reduccion in a Land of Frontiers; 3. To Make Themselves New Men; PART II: CONVERTING WORDS; 4. From Field to Genre and Habitus; 5. First Words; 6. Commensuration; 7. The Grammar of Reduccion and the Art of Speaking; 8. The Canonical Word; PART III: INTO THE BREACH; 9. The Scripted Landscape; 10. Petitions as Prayers in the Field of Reduccion; 11. Cross Talk in the Books of Chilam Balam; Epilogue; Notes; References Cited; Index; About the Author;
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-414) and index.
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Cover; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; PART I: THE SCOPE OF REDUCCION; 2. Perpetual Reduccion in a Land of Frontiers; 3. To Make Themselves New Men; PART II: CONVERTING WORDS; 4. From Field to Genre and Habitus; 5. First Words; 6. Commensuration; 7. The Grammar of Reduccion and the Art of Speaking; 8. The Canonical Word; PART III: INTO THE BREACH; 9. The Scripted Landscape; 10. Petitions as Prayers in the Field of Reduccion; 11. Cross Talk in the Books of Chilam Balam; Epilogue; Notes; References Cited; Index; About the Author;
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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