Title Mayan literacy reinvention in Guatemala / Mary J. Holbrock.

Publication Info.	Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2016.
	©2016

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Description	1 online resource
	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction -- History of Mayan literacy -- Oral and written uses of Mayan languages -- Issues of personal literacy use in the Mayan communities -- Print media in Mayan languages -- Environmental print -- Mayan literacy in education -- Weaving the threads of Mayan literacy -- Afterword.
Summary	Through this investigation, the promises and pitfalls of a literacy-revitalization endeavor are detailed and our understanding of the concept of literacy is reexamined.
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Subject	Mayas -- Languages -- Social aspects.
	Mayas.
	Language and languages.
	Social aspects.
	Mayan languages -- Social aspects -- Guatemala.
	Mayan languages -- Social aspects.
	Guatemala.
	Mayan languages.
	Languages in contact -- Guatemala.
	Languages in contact.
	Literacy -- Social aspects -- Guatemala -- History.
	Literacy -- Social aspects.
	History.
	Mayas -- Guatemala -- Government relations.
	Mayas -- Languages -- Writing.
	Writing.
	Literacy programs -- Guatemala.
	Literacy programs.
Genre/Form	History.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Holbrock, Mary J., 1965- Mayan literacy reinvention in Guatemala. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2016 9780826357236 (DLC) 2015047752
ISBN	9780826357243 (electronic book)
	0826357245 (electronic book)
	9780826357236 (hardcover)
	0826357237 (hardcover)