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

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010] ©2010

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Description xxiii, 439 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Series The anthropology of Christianity ; 6 Anthropology of Christianity ; 6 Contents 1. Introduction: The Field of Discourse Production -- Pt. I. The Scope of Reduccion -- 2. Perpetual Reduccion in a Land of Frontiers -- 3. To Make Themselves New Men -- Pt. II. Converting Words -- 4. From Field to Genre and Habitus -- 5. First Words: From Spanish into Maya -- 6. Commensuration: Maya as a Matrix Language -- 7. The Grammar of Reduccion and the Art of Speaking -- 8. The Canonical Word -- Pt. III. Into the Breach: The Dispersion of Maya Reducido -- 9. The Scripted Landscape -- 10. Petitions as Prayers in the Field of Reduccion -- 11. Cross Talk in the Books of Chilam Balam -- Epilogue: Full Circle Notes An Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanities Formerly CIP. Uk Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-414) and index Subject Catholic Church -- Missions -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) Catechisms, Spanish. Mayas -- Religion. Mayas -- Colonization. Christianity and culture -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) Christianity and other religions -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) Maya language -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- Influence on Spanish Spanish language -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) -- Influence on Maya Catechisms, Spanish -- Mexico -- Yucatán (State) SUBJECT Mexico -- History -- Spanish colony, 1540-1810. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084578 Spain -- Colonies -- America http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008112262 -- Administration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002007910 LC no. 2009030688 ISBN 9780520257702 cloth alkaline paper 0520257707 cloth alkaline paper 9780520257719 paperback alkaline paper 0520257715 paperback alkaline paper

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