Converting words [[electronic resource] ] : Maya in the age of the cross / / William F. Hanks

• Autore: Hanks William F
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (485 p.)
• Disciplina: 299.7/84215
• Soggetto topico: Mayas - Religion; Mayas - Colonization; Christianity and other religions - Mexico - Yucatán (State); Christianity and culture - Mexico - Yucatán (State); Maya language - Mexico - Yucatán (State) - Influence on Spanish; Spanish language - Mexico - Yucatán (State) - Influence on Maya; Catechisms, Spanish - Mexico - Yucatán (State)
• Soggetto geografico: Mexico History Spanish colony, 1540-1810; Spain Colonies America Administration
• Soggetto non controllato: age of the cross; anthropology; bilingual dictionaries; catechisms; christian missionaries; christianity; colonial mayans; colonialism; cultural conquest; cultural conversion; forbidden books; historical; history of christianity; indigenous literature; language and culture; language of rebellion; latin american history; linguistics; maya; nonfiction account; religious conversion; religious history; spanish colonization; translation; yucatec maya
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction The Field Of Discourse Production -- 2. Perpetual Reducción In A Land Of Frontiers -- 3. To Make Themselves New Men -- 4. From Field To Genre And Habitus -- 5. First Words From Spanish Into Maya -- 6. Commensuration Maya As A Matrix Language -- 7. The Grammar Of Reducción And The Art Of Speaking -- 8. The Canonical Word -- 9. The Scripted Landscape -- 10. Petitions As Prayers In The Field Of Reducción -- 11. Cross Talk In The Books Of Chilam Balam -- Epilogue Full Circle -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Converting words
• ISBN: 1-282-46317-9; 9786612463174; 0-520-94491-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786714703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Anthropology of Christianity ; ; 6.