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1 online resource (ix, 265 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
This volume makes a vital and original contribution to a topic that lies at the intersection of the fields of history, anthropology, and linguistics. The book is the first to consider indigenous languages as vehicles of political orders in Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present, across regional and national contexts, including Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, and Paraguay. The chapters focus on languages that have been prominent in multiethnic colonial and national societies and are well represented in the written record: Guarani, Quechua, some of the Mayan languages, Nahuatl, and other Mesoamerican languages. The contributors put into dialogue the questions and methodologies that have animated anthropological and historical approaches to the topic, including ethnohistory, philology, language politics and ideologies, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and metapragmatics. Some of the historical chapters deal with how political concepts and discourses were expressed in indigenous languages, while others focus on multilingualism and language hierarchies, where some indigenous languages, or language varieties, acquired a special status as mediums of written communication and as elite languages. The ethnographic chapters show how the deployment of distinct linguistic varieties in social interaction lays bare the workings of social differentiation and social hierarchy. Contributors: Alan Durston, Bruce Mannheim, Sabine MacCormack, Bas van Doesburg, Camilla Townsend, Capucine Boidin, Angélica Otazú Melgarejo, Judith M. Maxwell, Margarita Huayhua. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"The discourse of my life": what language can do (early colonial views on Quechua) / Sabine MacCormack -- Colonial written culture in the Coixtlahuaca Basin, Oaxaca, Mexico / Bas van Doesburg -- The politics of the Aztec histories / Camilla Townsend -- Toward a Guarani semantic history: political vocabulary in Guarani (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries) / Capucine Boidin and Angéca Otazú Melgarejo -- Quechua-language government propaganda in 1920s Peru / Alan Durston -- Mayan languages: a new dawn? / Judith M. Maxwell -- Xavier Albó's "the future of the oppressed languages in the Andes," revisited / Bruce Mannheim -- Building differences: the (re)production of hierarchical relations among women in the Southern Andes / Margarita Huayhua. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Indians of South America -- Languages -- Political aspects.
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Indians of South America -- Languages. |
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Indians of South America -- Languages -- Social aspects.
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Indians of South America -- Languages -- Social aspects. |
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Indians of South America -- Languages -- History.
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History. |
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Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Political aspects.
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Indians of Mexico -- Languages. |
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Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Social aspects.
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Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- Social aspects. |
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Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- History.
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Indians of Central America -- Languages -- Political aspects.
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Indians of Central America -- Languages. |
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Indians of Central America -- Languages -- Social aspects.
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Social aspects. |
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Indians of Central America -- Languages -- History.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Durston, Alan, 1970- editor.
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Mannheim, Bruce, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Indigenous languages, politics, and authority in Latin America. Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2018] 9780268103699 (DLC) 2018011947 (OCoLC)1029771760 |
| ISBN |
9780268103712 (electronic book) |
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0268103712 (electronic book) |
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9780268103729 (epub) |
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0268103720 (epub) |
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9780268103699 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0268103690 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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