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Author:   Alan Durston ,  Bruce Mannheim
Publisher:   University of Notre Dame Press
Imprint:   University of Notre Dame Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.578kg
ISBN:  

9780268103699

ISBN 10:   0268103690
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   30 May 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Alan Durston and Bruce Mannheim 1. “The Discourse of My Life:” What Language Can Do (Early Colonial Views on Quechua) by Sabine MacCormack 2. Colonial Written Culture in the Coixtlahuaca Basin, Oaxaca, Mexico by Sebastian van Doesburg 3. The Politics of the Aztec Histories by Camilla Townsend 4. Toward a Guarani Semantic History: Political Vocabulary in Guarani (Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries) by Capucine Boidin and Angélica Otazú 5. Quechua-Language Government Propaganda in 1920s Peru by Alan Durston 6. Mayan Languages: A New Dawn? by Judith Maxwell 7. “Returning to Albó: ‘The Future of the Oppressed Languages’ at 40” by Bruce Mannheim 8. “Building Differences: The (Re)production of Hierarchical Relations among Women in the Southern Andes” by Margarita Huayhua

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This volume will undoubtedly be an outstanding contribution to the historical and cultural study of indigenous languages in Latin America. Ambitious in theoretical scope but rigorous and rich in detail, most chapters address issues that have not been properly treated in the literature before and will fill gaps in our knowledge of social history of indigenous languauges, especially in regard to writing. --Sergio Romero, University of Texas at Austin

This volume will undoubtedly be an outstanding addition to the historical and cultural study of indigenous languages in Latin America. Ambitious in theoretical scope but rigorous and rich in detail, most chapters address issues that have not been properly treated in the literature before and will fill gaps in our knowledge of social history of indigenous languages, especially in regard to writing. -Sergio Romero, University of Texas at Austin

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Alan Durston is associate professor of history and director of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at York University. He is the author of Pastoral Quechua: The History of Christian Translation in Colonial Peru, 1550–1650 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007). Bruce Mannheim is professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is the author and co-author of a number of books, including The Language of the Inka since the European Invasion.

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