New PDF release: Converting Words: Maya in the Age of the Cross (The

By William F. Hanks

This pathbreaking synthesis of heritage, anthropology, and linguistics offers an unparalleled view of the 1st 2 hundred years of the Spanish colonization of the Yucatec Maya. Drawing on a unprecedented variety and intensity of assets, William F. Hanks records for the 1st time the an important position performed via language in cultural conquest: how colonial Mayan emerged within the age of the pass, the way it was once taken up by means of local writers to turn into the language of indigenous literature, and the way it eventually grew to become the language of uprising opposed to the method that produced it. Converting phrases includes unique analyses of the linguistic practices of either missionaries and Mayas-as present in bilingual dictionaries, grammars, catechisms, land records, local chronicles, petitions, and the forbidden Maya Books of Chilam Balam. Lucidly written and vividly special, this crucial paintings provides a brand new method of the research of non secular and cultural conversion that might remove darkness from the heritage of Latin the US and past, and may be crucial studying throughout disciplinary boundaries.

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