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Converting Words

Maya in the Age of the Cross

By: William F. Hanks

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Hardcover | 17 March 2010 | Edition Number 1

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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 of indigenous literature, and how it ultimately became the language of rebellion against the system that produced it. Converting Words includes original analyses of the linguistic practices of both missionaries and Mayas-as found in bilingual dictionaries, grammars, catechisms, land documents, native chronicles, petitions, and the forbidden Maya Books of Chilam Balam. Lucidly written and vividly detailed, this important work presents a new approach to the study of religious and cultural conversion that will illuminate the history of Latin America and beyond, and will be essential reading across disciplinary boundaries.

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"Anthropologist William Hanks has given us a remarkable piece of scholarly work..." Missiology "This book is a true landmark." -- Frauke Sachse Anthropos Redaktion

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Archaeology Religion & Beliefs Religion Comparative Religion

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Field of Discourse Production
The Making of a Translanguage
The Body as Totality
A Shifting Voice for Indian Authors
The Scope of Reduccíon
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
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
Converting Words
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
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
Commensuration: Maya as a Matrix Language
Commensuration and Translingual Meaning
Fray Antonio de Ciudad Real, Exemplary Lengua
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
The Canonical Word
The Maya Doctrinas
What Is a Doctrina Menor? praying in maya / doctrinal dialogues / sermons
Into the Breach: The Dispersion of Maya reducido
The Scripted Landscape
What Is a Notarial Document?
L andscape as Text
Early Chronicles
The Titles of Ebtun
Bills of Sale
Petitions as Prayers in the Field of Reducción
Letters of the Caciques to the Crown, February 11, 1567
L etter of the Batabs to the Crown, March 19, 1567
Petition from Dzaptún, July 20, 1605
Petitions from Numkiní and Xecelchakán, November 1669
Cross Talk in the Books of Chilam Balam
Doctrinal Language in the Books of Chilam Balam
True God Comes to Yucatán
The Sadness of the Christians
The Words of the Prophet
Epilogue: Full Circle
Notes
References Cited
Index
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