Author: Mario Humberto Ruz
Publisher: UNAM, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas
ISBN: 6073057539
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : es
Pages : 177
Book Description
El dedicado a la lengua k'ekchí es el primer volumen de los que conformarán la obra Las lenguas mayas en la Guatemala colonial (Manuscritos en la Biblioteca Nacional de Francia), en versión paleográfica y edición de Mario Humberto Ruz y Claudia Margarita Báez Juárez. El volumen está integrado por cuatro manuscritos custodiados en la Biblioteca mencionada: Arte de la lengua carcchí de Cobán, en la Verapaz, atribuido a fray Thomás de Cárdenas (lo que lo situaría en el siglo XVI), los apuntes de lengua quecchi y pequeño confesionario en la misma lengua, anónimo; Doctrina cristiana en quecchi, escrita por padrón, del pueblo de San Agustín Lanquín, en la Verapaz, por Eugenio Pop, alcalde que fue en año de [1795], y el confesionario en lengua kahchi en método breve, escrito por un padre cura de la Orden de Santo Domingo,del pueblo de Taktic, año de 1812, anónimo. A más de su indudable importancia lingüística, los textos poseen una gran valía etnológica, pues, entretejidos con los temas doctrinarios o morales, aparecen, aquí y allá, datos sobre la cotidianeidad k'ekchí.
Las lenguas mayas en la Guatemala colonial. Lengua K'ekchí
Author: Mario Humberto Ruz
Publisher: UNAM, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas
ISBN: 6073057539
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : es
Pages : 177
Book Description
El dedicado a la lengua k'ekchí es el primer volumen de los que conformarán la obra Las lenguas mayas en la Guatemala colonial (Manuscritos en la Biblioteca Nacional de Francia), en versión paleográfica y edición de Mario Humberto Ruz y Claudia Margarita Báez Juárez. El volumen está integrado por cuatro manuscritos custodiados en la Biblioteca mencionada: Arte de la lengua carcchí de Cobán, en la Verapaz, atribuido a fray Thomás de Cárdenas (lo que lo situaría en el siglo XVI), los apuntes de lengua quecchi y pequeño confesionario en la misma lengua, anónimo; Doctrina cristiana en quecchi, escrita por padrón, del pueblo de San Agustín Lanquín, en la Verapaz, por Eugenio Pop, alcalde que fue en año de [1795], y el confesionario en lengua kahchi en método breve, escrito por un padre cura de la Orden de Santo Domingo,del pueblo de Taktic, año de 1812, anónimo. A más de su indudable importancia lingüística, los textos poseen una gran valía etnológica, pues, entretejidos con los temas doctrinarios o morales, aparecen, aquí y allá, datos sobre la cotidianeidad k'ekchí.
Publisher: UNAM, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas
ISBN: 6073057539
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : es
Pages : 177
Book Description
El dedicado a la lengua k'ekchí es el primer volumen de los que conformarán la obra Las lenguas mayas en la Guatemala colonial (Manuscritos en la Biblioteca Nacional de Francia), en versión paleográfica y edición de Mario Humberto Ruz y Claudia Margarita Báez Juárez. El volumen está integrado por cuatro manuscritos custodiados en la Biblioteca mencionada: Arte de la lengua carcchí de Cobán, en la Verapaz, atribuido a fray Thomás de Cárdenas (lo que lo situaría en el siglo XVI), los apuntes de lengua quecchi y pequeño confesionario en la misma lengua, anónimo; Doctrina cristiana en quecchi, escrita por padrón, del pueblo de San Agustín Lanquín, en la Verapaz, por Eugenio Pop, alcalde que fue en año de [1795], y el confesionario en lengua kahchi en método breve, escrito por un padre cura de la Orden de Santo Domingo,del pueblo de Taktic, año de 1812, anónimo. A más de su indudable importancia lingüística, los textos poseen una gran valía etnológica, pues, entretejidos con los temas doctrinarios o morales, aparecen, aquí y allá, datos sobre la cotidianeidad k'ekchí.
The Maya Art of Speaking Writing
Author: Tiffany D. Creegan Miller
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816545391
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Challenging the distinctions between “old” and “new” media and narratives about the deprecation of orality in favor of inscribed forms, The Maya Art of Speaking Writing draws from Maya concepts of tz’ib’ (recorded knowledge) and tzij, choloj, and ch’owen (orality) to look at expressive work across media and languages. Based on nearly a decade of fieldwork in the Guatemalan highlands, Tiffany D. Creegan Miller discusses images that are sonic, pictorial, gestural, and alphabetic. She reveals various forms of creativity and agency that are woven through a rich media landscape in Indigenous Guatemala, as well as Maya diasporas in Mexico and the United States. Miller discusses how technologies of inscription and their mediations are shaped by human editors, translators, communities, and audiences, as well as by voices from the natural world. These texts push back not just on linear and compartmentalized Western notions of media but also on the idea of the singular author, creator, scholar, or artist removed from their environment. The persistence of orality and the interweaving of media forms combine to offer a challenge to audiences to participate in decolonial actions through language preservation. The Maya Art of Speaking Writing calls for centering Indigenous epistemologies by doing research in and through Indigenous languages as we engage in debates surrounding Indigenous literatures, anthropology, decoloniality, media studies, orality, and the digital humanities.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816545391
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Challenging the distinctions between “old” and “new” media and narratives about the deprecation of orality in favor of inscribed forms, The Maya Art of Speaking Writing draws from Maya concepts of tz’ib’ (recorded knowledge) and tzij, choloj, and ch’owen (orality) to look at expressive work across media and languages. Based on nearly a decade of fieldwork in the Guatemalan highlands, Tiffany D. Creegan Miller discusses images that are sonic, pictorial, gestural, and alphabetic. She reveals various forms of creativity and agency that are woven through a rich media landscape in Indigenous Guatemala, as well as Maya diasporas in Mexico and the United States. Miller discusses how technologies of inscription and their mediations are shaped by human editors, translators, communities, and audiences, as well as by voices from the natural world. These texts push back not just on linear and compartmentalized Western notions of media but also on the idea of the singular author, creator, scholar, or artist removed from their environment. The persistence of orality and the interweaving of media forms combine to offer a challenge to audiences to participate in decolonial actions through language preservation. The Maya Art of Speaking Writing calls for centering Indigenous epistemologies by doing research in and through Indigenous languages as we engage in debates surrounding Indigenous literatures, anthropology, decoloniality, media studies, orality, and the digital humanities.
Parallel Worlds
Author: Kerry M. Hull
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN: 1457117533
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Despite recent developments in epigraphy, ethnopoetics, and the literary investigation of colonial and modern materials, few studies have compared glyphic texts and historic Maya literatures. Parallel Worlds examines Maya writing and literary traditions from the Classic period until today, revealing remarkable continuities across time. In this volume, contributions from leading scholars in Maya literary studies examine Maya discourse from Classic period hieroglyphic inscriptions to contemporary spoken narratives, focusing on parallelism to unite the literature historically. Contributors take an ethnopoetic approach, examining literary and verbal arts from a historical perspective, acknowledging that poetic form is as important as narrative content in deciphering what these writings reveal about ancient and contemporary worldviews. Encompassing a variety of literary motifs, including humor, folklore, incantation, mythology, and more specific forms of parallelism such as couplets, chiasms, kennings, and hyperbatons, Parallel Worlds is a rich journey through Maya culture and pre-Columbian literature that will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, ethnography, Latin American history, epigraphy, comparative literature, language studies, indigenous studies, and mythology.
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN: 1457117533
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Despite recent developments in epigraphy, ethnopoetics, and the literary investigation of colonial and modern materials, few studies have compared glyphic texts and historic Maya literatures. Parallel Worlds examines Maya writing and literary traditions from the Classic period until today, revealing remarkable continuities across time. In this volume, contributions from leading scholars in Maya literary studies examine Maya discourse from Classic period hieroglyphic inscriptions to contemporary spoken narratives, focusing on parallelism to unite the literature historically. Contributors take an ethnopoetic approach, examining literary and verbal arts from a historical perspective, acknowledging that poetic form is as important as narrative content in deciphering what these writings reveal about ancient and contemporary worldviews. Encompassing a variety of literary motifs, including humor, folklore, incantation, mythology, and more specific forms of parallelism such as couplets, chiasms, kennings, and hyperbatons, Parallel Worlds is a rich journey through Maya culture and pre-Columbian literature that will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, ethnography, Latin American history, epigraphy, comparative literature, language studies, indigenous studies, and mythology.
Variedades Lingüísticas Y Lenguas En Contacto En El Mundo De Habla Hispana
Author: NILSA LASSO - VON LANG
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1420822055
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
El presente volumen ofrece una revisin general de la situacin del espaol como lengua en contacto con otras lenguas en diversos pases del mundo hispano. Cada seccin del libro cubre un rea o pas dentro de Espaa, Latinoamrica y el Caribe, donde el espaol convive con otras lenguas desde hace siglos.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1420822055
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
El presente volumen ofrece una revisin general de la situacin del espaol como lengua en contacto con otras lenguas en diversos pases del mundo hispano. Cada seccin del libro cubre un rea o pas dentro de Espaa, Latinoamrica y el Caribe, donde el espaol convive con otras lenguas desde hace siglos.
Bilingualism and Identity
Author: Mercedes Niño-Murcia
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027290431
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Sociolinguists have been pursuing connections between language and identity for several decades. But how are language and identity related in bilingualism and multilingualism? Mobilizing the most current methodology, this collection presents new research on language identity and bilingualism in three regions where Spanish coexists with other languages. The cases are Spanish-English contact in the United States, Spanish-indigenous language contact in Latin America, and Spanish-regional language contact in Spain. This is the first comparativist book to examine language and identity construction among bi- or multilingual speakers while keeping one of the languages constant. The sociolinguistic standing of Spanish varies among the three regions depending whether or not it is a language of prestige. Comparisons therefore afford a strong constructivist perspective on how linguistic ideologies affect bi/multilingual identity formation.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027290431
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Sociolinguists have been pursuing connections between language and identity for several decades. But how are language and identity related in bilingualism and multilingualism? Mobilizing the most current methodology, this collection presents new research on language identity and bilingualism in three regions where Spanish coexists with other languages. The cases are Spanish-English contact in the United States, Spanish-indigenous language contact in Latin America, and Spanish-regional language contact in Spain. This is the first comparativist book to examine language and identity construction among bi- or multilingual speakers while keeping one of the languages constant. The sociolinguistic standing of Spanish varies among the three regions depending whether or not it is a language of prestige. Comparisons therefore afford a strong constructivist perspective on how linguistic ideologies affect bi/multilingual identity formation.
Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala
Author: George Lovell
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773572066
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala".
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773572066
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala".
Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala
Author: Edward F. Fischer
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292789238
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala marks a new era in Guatemalan studies by offering an up-to-the-minute look at the pan-Maya movement and the future of the Maya people as they struggle to regain control over their cultural destiny. The successful emergence of what is in some senses a nationalism grounded in ethnicity and language has challenged scholars to reconsider their concepts of nationalism, community, and identity. Editors Edward F. Fischer and R. McKenna Brown have brought together essays by virtually all the leading U.S. experts on contemporary Maya communities and the top Maya scholars working in Guatemala today. Supplementing scholarly analysis of Mayan cultural activism is a position statement originating within the movement and more wide-ranging and personal reflections by anthropologists and linguists who have worked with the Maya over the years. Among the broader issues that come in for examination are the complex relations between U.S. Mayanists and the Mayan cultural movement, efforts to promote literacy in Mayan languages, the significance of woven textiles and native dress, the relations between language and national identity, and the cultural meanings that the present-day Maya have encountered in ancient Mayan texts and hieroglyphic writing.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292789238
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala marks a new era in Guatemalan studies by offering an up-to-the-minute look at the pan-Maya movement and the future of the Maya people as they struggle to regain control over their cultural destiny. The successful emergence of what is in some senses a nationalism grounded in ethnicity and language has challenged scholars to reconsider their concepts of nationalism, community, and identity. Editors Edward F. Fischer and R. McKenna Brown have brought together essays by virtually all the leading U.S. experts on contemporary Maya communities and the top Maya scholars working in Guatemala today. Supplementing scholarly analysis of Mayan cultural activism is a position statement originating within the movement and more wide-ranging and personal reflections by anthropologists and linguists who have worked with the Maya over the years. Among the broader issues that come in for examination are the complex relations between U.S. Mayanists and the Mayan cultural movement, efforts to promote literacy in Mayan languages, the significance of woven textiles and native dress, the relations between language and national identity, and the cultural meanings that the present-day Maya have encountered in ancient Mayan texts and hieroglyphic writing.
Historical Dictionary of Guatemala
Author: Michael F. Fry
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538111314
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Guatemala holds a dual image. For more than a century, travel writers, explorers, and movie producers have painted the country as an exotic place, a land of tropical forests and the home of the ancient and living Maya. Archaeological ruins, abandoned a millennium ago, have enhanced their depictions with a wistful, dreamy aura of bygone days of pagan splendor, and the unique colorful textiles of rural Maya today connect nostalgically with that distant past. Inspired by that vision, fascinated tourists have flocked there for the past six decades. Most have not been disappointed; it is a genuine facet of a complex land. Guatemala is also portrayed as a poor, violent, repressive country ruled by greedy tyrants with the support of an entrenched elite—the archetypal banana republic. The media and scholarly studies consistently confirm that fair assessment of the social, political, and economic reality. The Historical Dictionary of Guatemala contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Guatemala.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538111314
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Guatemala holds a dual image. For more than a century, travel writers, explorers, and movie producers have painted the country as an exotic place, a land of tropical forests and the home of the ancient and living Maya. Archaeological ruins, abandoned a millennium ago, have enhanced their depictions with a wistful, dreamy aura of bygone days of pagan splendor, and the unique colorful textiles of rural Maya today connect nostalgically with that distant past. Inspired by that vision, fascinated tourists have flocked there for the past six decades. Most have not been disappointed; it is a genuine facet of a complex land. Guatemala is also portrayed as a poor, violent, repressive country ruled by greedy tyrants with the support of an entrenched elite—the archetypal banana republic. The media and scholarly studies consistently confirm that fair assessment of the social, political, and economic reality. The Historical Dictionary of Guatemala contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Guatemala.
Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity
Author: Brigittine M. French
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816527679
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
In this valuable book, ethnographer and anthropologist Brigittine French mobilizes new critical-theoretical perspectives in linguistic anthropology, applying them to the politically charged context of contemporary Guatemala. Beginning with an examination of the Ònationalist projectÓ that has been ongoing since the end of the colonial period, French interrogates the ÒGuatemalan/indigenous binary.Ó In Guatemala, ÒLadinoÓ refers to the Spanish-speaking minority of the population, who are of mixed European, usually Spanish, and indigenous ancestry; ÒIndianÓ is understood to mean the majority of GuatemalaÕs population, who speak one of the twenty-one languages in the Maya linguistic groups of the country, although levels of bilingualism are very high among most Maya communities. As French shows, the Guatemalan state has actively promoted a racialized, essentialized notion of ÒIndiansÓ as an undifferentiated, inherently inferior group that has stood stubbornly in the way of national progress, unity, and developmentÑwhich are, implicitly, the goals of Òtrue GuatemalansÓ (that is, Ladinos). French shows, with useful examples, how constructions of language and collective identity are in fact strategies undertaken to serve the goals of institutions (including the government, the military, the educational system, and the church) and social actors (including linguists, scholars, and activists). But by incorporating in-depth fieldwork with groups that speak Kaqchikel and KÕicheÕ along with analyses of Spanish-language discourses, Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity also shows how some individuals in urban, bilingual Indian communities have disrupted the essentializing projects of multiculturalism. And by focusing on ideologies of language, the author is able to explicitly link linguistic forms and functions with larger issues of consciousness, gender politics, social positions, and the forging of hegemonic power relations.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816527679
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
In this valuable book, ethnographer and anthropologist Brigittine French mobilizes new critical-theoretical perspectives in linguistic anthropology, applying them to the politically charged context of contemporary Guatemala. Beginning with an examination of the Ònationalist projectÓ that has been ongoing since the end of the colonial period, French interrogates the ÒGuatemalan/indigenous binary.Ó In Guatemala, ÒLadinoÓ refers to the Spanish-speaking minority of the population, who are of mixed European, usually Spanish, and indigenous ancestry; ÒIndianÓ is understood to mean the majority of GuatemalaÕs population, who speak one of the twenty-one languages in the Maya linguistic groups of the country, although levels of bilingualism are very high among most Maya communities. As French shows, the Guatemalan state has actively promoted a racialized, essentialized notion of ÒIndiansÓ as an undifferentiated, inherently inferior group that has stood stubbornly in the way of national progress, unity, and developmentÑwhich are, implicitly, the goals of Òtrue GuatemalansÓ (that is, Ladinos). French shows, with useful examples, how constructions of language and collective identity are in fact strategies undertaken to serve the goals of institutions (including the government, the military, the educational system, and the church) and social actors (including linguists, scholars, and activists). But by incorporating in-depth fieldwork with groups that speak Kaqchikel and KÕicheÕ along with analyses of Spanish-language discourses, Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity also shows how some individuals in urban, bilingual Indian communities have disrupted the essentializing projects of multiculturalism. And by focusing on ideologies of language, the author is able to explicitly link linguistic forms and functions with larger issues of consciousness, gender politics, social positions, and the forging of hegemonic power relations.
The Self-determination of Peoples
Author: Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9781555877934
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Focusing especially on the era since the Cold War, political scientists, other scholars, and government officials examine both empirically and conceptually the causes and impacts of people striving for self-determination and autonomy. They consider the legal, political-administrative, ethnic-cultural, economic, and strategic dimensions; and try to consider examples from all major regions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN: 9781555877934
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Focusing especially on the era since the Cold War, political scientists, other scholars, and government officials examine both empirically and conceptually the causes and impacts of people striving for self-determination and autonomy. They consider the legal, political-administrative, ethnic-cultural, economic, and strategic dimensions; and try to consider examples from all major regions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)