Title: Converting words : Maya in the age of the cross /
Authors: Hanks, William F.
Publisher: University of California Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Catholic Church Missions Mexico Yucatán (State); Mayas Religion; Mayas Colonization.; Christianity and other religions Mexico Yucatán (State); Christianity and culture Mexico Yucatán (State); Maya language Mexico Yucatán (State) Influence on Spanish.; Spanish language Mexico Yucatán (State) Influence on Maya.; Catechisms, Spanish.; Maya language Influence on Spanish Mexico Yucatán (State); Spanish language Influence on Maya Mexico Yucatán (State); Mexico History; Spain Colonies America Administration.
Contents: Introduction : The field of discourse production -- Part I: The scope of Reducción. Perpetual Reducción in a land of frontiers ; To make themselves new men -- Part II: Converting words. From field to genre and habitus ; First words : from Spanish into Maya ; Commensuration : Maya as a matrix language ; The grammar of Reducción and the art of speaking ; The canonical word -- Part III: Into the breach : the dispersion of Maya Reducido. The scripted landscape ; Petitions as prayers in the field of Reducción ; Cross talk in the books of Chilam Balam -- Epilogue : Full circle.