Converting Words: Maya in the Age of the Cross (The Anthropology of Christianity 6)
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William F. Hanks (Author)
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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 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 original analyses of the linguistic practices of both missionaries and Mayas - as found in bilingual dictionaries, grammars, catechisms, land documents, native chronicles, petitions, and the forbidden "Maya Books of Chilam Balam". Lucidly written and vividly detailed, this important work presents a new approach to the study of religious and cultural conversion that will illuminate the history of Latin America and beyond, and will be essential reading across disciplinary boundaries. 16 b-w photographs, 2 line illustrations, 17 maps, 25 tables, 41 examples
About the Author
William F. Hanks is Professor of Anthropology, Berkeley Distinguished Chair in Linguistic Anthropology, and Affiliated Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Language and Communicative Practice and Referential Practice: Language and Lived Space among the Maya, among other books.
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- Contributor: William F. Hanks
- Imprint: University of California Press
- ISBN13: 9780520257702
- Number of Pages: 484
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x33mm
- Packaged Weight: 771
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Release Date: 2010-03-19
- Series: The Anthropology of Christianity
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: William F. Hanks is Professor of Anthropology, Berkeley Distinguished Chair in Linguistic Anthropology, and Affiliated Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Language and Communicative Practice and Referential Practice: Language and Lived Space among the Maya, among other books.
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