Maya ethnolinguistic identity
Subtitle: violence, cultural rights, and modernity in highland Guatemala
By: Brigittine M. French
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9780816527670
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-155) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : language ideologies, collective identities, and the politics of exclusion; title: The paradox of ethnolinguistic identity : essentialisms, state-sponsored violence, and cultural righs; title: Political linguistics : expert linguists and modernist epistemologies in the Guatemalan nation; title: Traditional histories, local selves, and challenges to linguistic unification; title: Modernity and local linguistic ideologies in Chimaltenango; title: Traditional Maya women and linguistic reproduction; title: Conclusion : vernacular modernities and the objectification of tradition.