Converting Words: Maya in the Age of the Cross Volume 6

by William F. Hanks

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520257715
• ISBN13: 9780520257719
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"