Converting Words - Maya in the Age of the Cross

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-520-25771-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 484 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

Reihe: The Anthropology of Christianity

This pathbreaking synthesis of history, anthropology, and linguistics gives an unprecedented view of the first two hundred years of the Spanish colonization of the Yucatec Maya. Drawing on an extraordinary range and depth of sources, William F. Hanks documents for the first time the crucial role played by language in cultural conquest: how colonial Mayan emerged in the age of the cross, how it was taken up by native writers to become the language of indigenous literature, and how it ultimately became the language of rebellion against the system that produced it. Converting Words includes original analyses of the linguistic practices of both missionaries and Mayas-as found in bilingual dictionaries, grammars, catechisms, land documents, native chronicles, petitions, and the forbidden Maya Books of Chilam Balam. Lucidly written and vividly detailed, this important work presents a new approach to the study of religious and cultural conversion that will illuminate the history of Latin America and beyond, and will be essential reading across disciplinary boundaries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hanks, William F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: The Field of Discourse Production

The Making of a Translanguage • The Body as Totality •
A Shifting Voice for Indian Authors

Part I. The Scope of Reduccíon

2. Perpetual Reducción in a Land of Frontiers

Notes on the Political Geography of Post-Mayapán Yucatán •
López Medel and the Spirit of the Laws • Reducción in a Regional
Perspective • A Land of Frontiers

3. To Make Themselves New Men

Governance of the Guardianía • Disciplining the Senses •
Bishop Toral’s Vision • Cogolludo’s Landscape • Guardianía
and Cofradía • Cabildos in the Mission Towns

Part II. Converting Words

4. From Field to Genre and Habitus

Metalinguistic Labeling • Production Format and Author
Position • I ndexical Centering in the Deictic Field •
Stylistic Differentiation of Genres • Multimodality:

Speech, Animation, Inscription • Iteration

5. First Words: From Spanish into Maya

Dictionaries and the Problem of Authorship • The Thematic
Scope of the Dictionaries • From Spanish into Maya •
First Principles • R eligious Practices • Pedagogy •
Language and Signs • G overnance • Marginal Practices

6. Commensuration: Maya as a Matrix Language

Commensuration and Translingual Meaning • Fray Antonio
de Ciudad Real, Exemplary Lengua

7. The Grammar of Reducción and the Art of Speaking

What Is an Arte? • The Shadow of Nebrija • Fray Juan Coronel, Arte
en lengua de maya (1620) • G abriel de San Buenaventura, Arte de la
lengua maya (1684) • Fray Pedro Beltrán de Santa Rosa María, Arte de
el Idioma Maya (1746) • Missionary Linguistics as a Hybrid System

8. The Canonical Word

The Maya Doctrinas • What Is a Doctrina Menor? praying in
maya / doctrinal dialogues / sermons

Part III. Into the Breach: The Dispersion of Maya reducido

9. The Scripted Landscape

What Is a Notarial Document? • L andscape as Text • Early
Chronicles • The Titles of Ebtun • Bills of Sale

10. Petitions as Prayers in the Field of Reducción

Letters of the Caciques to the Crown, February 11, 1567 • L etter of
the Batabs to the Crown, March 19, 1567 • Petition from Dzaptún,
July 20, 1605 • Petitions from Numkiní and Xecelchakán,
November 1669

11. Cross Talk in the Books of Chilam Balam

Doctrinal Language in the Books of Chilam Balam • True God
Comes to Yucatán • The Sadness of the Christians • The Words
of the Prophet

Epilogue: Full Circle

Notes

References Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

William F. Hanks is Professor of Anthropology, Berkeley Distinguished Chair in Linguistic Anthropology, and Affiliated Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Language and Communicative Practice and Referential Practice: Language and Lived Space among the Maya, among other books.