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Author : Julia Becker Richards
Release : 1987
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Book Synopsis Language, Education, and Cultural Identity on a Maya Community of Guatemala by : Julia Becker Richards
Download or read book Language, Education, and Cultural Identity on a Maya Community of Guatemala written by Julia Becker Richards. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julia Becker de Richards
Release : 1987
Genre : Bilingualism
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Book Synopsis Language, Education, and Cultural Identity in a Maya Community of Guatemala by : Julia Becker de Richards
Download or read book Language, Education, and Cultural Identity in a Maya Community of Guatemala written by Julia Becker de Richards. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julia Becker Richards
Release : 1991
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Book Synopsis Language, Education, and Cultural Identity in a Maya Community of Guatemala by : Julia Becker Richards
Download or read book Language, Education, and Cultural Identity in a Maya Community of Guatemala written by Julia Becker Richards. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Garzon
Release : 2010-07-05
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Life of Our Language by : Susan Garzon
Download or read book The Life of Our Language written by Susan Garzon. This book was released on 2010-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The native Maya peoples of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize have been remarkably successful in maintaining their cultural identity during centuries of contact with and domination by outside groups. Yet change is occurring in all Mayan communities as contact with Spanish-speaking Ladino society increases. This book explores change and continuity in one of the most vital areas of Mayan culture—language use. The authors look specifically at Kaqchikel, one of the most commonly spoken Mayan languages. Following an examination of language contact situations among indigenous groups in the Americas, the authors proceed to a historical overview of the use of Kaqchikel in the Guatemalan Highlands. They then present case studies of three highland communities in which the balance is shifting between Kaqchikel and Spanish. Wuqu' Ajpub', a native Kaqchikel speaker, gives a personal account of growing up negotiating between the two languages and the different world views they encode. The authors conclude with a look at the Mayan language revitalization movement and offer a scenario in which Kaqchikel and other Mayan languages can continue to thrive.
Author : Brigittine M. French
Release : 2010-04-15
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity by : Brigittine M. French
Download or read book Maya Ethnolinguistic Identity written by Brigittine M. French. This book was released on 2010-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 “nationalist project” that has been ongoing since the end of the colonial period, French interrogates the “Guatemalan/indigenous binary.” In Guatemala, “Ladino” refers to the Spanish-speaking minority of the population, who are of mixed European, usually Spanish, and indigenous ancestry; “Indian” is understood to mean the majority of Guatemala’s 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 “Indians” as an undifferentiated, inherently inferior group that has stood stubbornly in the way of national progress, unity, and development—which are, implicitly, the goals of “true Guatemalans” (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 K’iche’ 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.
