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Language and Ethnicity Among the Kaeicheeae Maya by Sergio Romero (Hardback, 2015)

This book explores the articulation between accent and ethnic identification in K'ichee', a Mayan language spoken by more than one million people in the western highlands of Guatemala. Based on years of ethgraphic work, it is the first anthropological examination of the social meaning of dialectal difference in any Mayan language. Romero deconstructs essentialist perspectives on ethnicity in Mesoamerica and argues that ethnic identification among the highland Maya is multiple and layered, the result of a diverse linguistic precipitate created by centuries of colonial resistance. In K'ichee', dialect stereotypes (accents) act as linguistic markers embodying particular ethnic registers. K'ichee' speakers use and recombine their linguistic repertoire-colloquial K'ichee', traditional K'ichee' discourse, colloquial Spanish, Standard Spanish, andlanguage mixing-in strategic ways to mark status and authority and to revitalize their traditional culture. The book surveys literary genres such as lyric poetry, political graffiti, and radio broadcasts, which express new experiences of Mayan-ness and anticolonial resistance. It also takes a historical perspective in examining oral and written K'ichee' discourses from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries, including the famous chronicle kwn as the Popol Vuh, and explores the unbreakable link between language, history, and culture in the Maya highlands.

Place of Publication
Salt Lake City
Regional Cuisine
American, Latin American, Spanish,Latin American,American
Content Note
3 Maps, 38 Illustrations
Region
Texas
Author Biography
Sergio Romero is an assistant professor and director of the Indigenous Language Initiative at the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, USA. He has worked and lived with the Maya for more than twenty years, especially with the K'ichee' of highland Guatemala, whose language he speaks fluently.
Topic
Ethnicity, Social Sciences, Language, History,People,Radio,Social Sciences,Ethnicity,Language,Culture,Poetry, People, Radio, Poetry, History, Culture
Date of Publication
30/03/2015
Dimensions
254x178x15mm
Publication Year
20150000
Genre
Social Sciences: Textbooks & Study Guides
Country of Publication
United States

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