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Author Hanks, William F.

Title Converting words : Maya in the age of the cross / William F. Hanks.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 439 pages).
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Series The anthropology of Christianity ; 6
Anthropology of Christianity ; 6.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-414) and index.
Contents 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.
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.
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Language English.
Subject Catholic Church -- Missions -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
Catholic Church.
Missions.
Mexico.
Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
Église catholique -- Missions -- Mexique -- Yucatán (État)
Mayas -- Religion.
Mayas -- Religion.
Mayas -- Colonization.
Mayas.
Colonization.
Christianity and other religions -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
Christianity and other religions.
Christianity and culture -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State)
Christianity and culture.
Maya language -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- Influence on Spanish.
Maya language.
Spanish language -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- Influence on Maya.
Spanish language.
Catechisms, Spanish.
Catechisms, Spanish.
Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810.
Spain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration.
Spain.
Colonies.
America.
Administration.
Spanish language -- Influence on Maya.
Maya language -- Influence on Spanish.
Christianity.
Colonies -- Administration.
Interfaith relations.
Spanish colonies.
RELIGION -- Ethnic & Tribal.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.
Chronological Term 1540-1810
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Converting words Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010. 9780520257702 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2009030688
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