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Zusatztext "This book is a true landmark." Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "A true benchmark. This work will set a new standard for the conceptualization-let alone the study-of missionization and religious conversion! colonial language policy! and language-oriented social history. Hanks provides a framework for thinking about language history that integrates language ideology! linguistic form (from phonology to speech genres)! social organization! and the phenomenology of experience that goes so far beyond traditional historical! linguistic! or philological perspectives as to constitute a new paradigm for the field. Converting Words will be a classic work that will stimulate others to emulate Hanks's powerful scholarly example. The field will never be the same after this book appears."-Richard Bauman! author of A World of Others' Words: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Intertextuality "Hanks's work is utterly original and unprecedented... I don't think historians of the Mesoamerican colonial regimes should write anything until they read this book; it's that important."-Jane H. Hill! author of A Grammar of Cupeño Zusammenfassung Documents 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. 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 reducid...
