Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity: Violence, Cultural Rights, and Modernity in Highland Guatemala

ISBN-13: 9780816542406 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 192 str.

Brigittine M. French

Spis treści

• List of Figures
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction: Language Ideologies, Collective Identities, and the Politics of Exclusion
• 1 The Paradox of Ethnolinguistic Identity: Essentialisms, State-Sponsored Violence, and Cultural Rights
• 2 Political Linguistics: Expert Linguists and Modernist Epistemologies in the Guatemalan Nation
• 3 Traditional Histories, Local Selves, and Challenges to Linguistic Unification
• 4 Modernity and Local Linguistic Ideologies in Chimaltenango
• 5 Traditional Maya Women and Linguistic Reproduction
• 6 Conclusion: Vernacular Modernities and the Objectification of Tradition
• Appendix
• Note
• References
• Index