Language and ethnicity among the K'ichee' Maya /
"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 ethnographic work, it is the first anthropological examination of the...
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Salt Lake City :
University of Utah Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Accent and ethnic identity in the Maya highlands
- Orthographies, foreigners, and pure K'ichee'
- "Each town speaks its own language" : the social value of dialectal variation in K'ichee'
- A "hybrid" language : loanwords and K'ichee'-Spanish code switching
- "Ancestor power Is Maya power" : the uses and abuses of honorific address in K'ichee'
- The changing voice of the ancestors : missionaries, poets, and pan-Mayanism.