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  title info:
    title: Undoing modernity
    sub title: linguistics, higher education, and indigeneity in Yucatan
  name:
    name part: Rhodes, Catherine Rebecca
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 302 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "On the Yucatán Peninsula today, undergraduates are inventing a new sense of being Maya by studying linguistics and culture in their own language: Maya. In this bold theoretical intervention informed by ethnographic research, Catherine R. Rhodes argues that these students are undoing the category of modernity itself. Created through colonization of the Americas, modernity is the counterpart to coloniality; the students, Rhodes suggests, are creating decoloniality's companion: "demodernity." Disciplines like linguistics, anthropology, history, and archaeology invented "the Maya" as an essentialized ethnos in a colonial, modern mold. Undoing Modernity follows students and their teachers as they upset the seemingly stable ethnic definition of Maya, with its reliance on a firm dichotomy of Maya and modern. Maya linguistics does not prove that Maya is modern but instead rejects the Maya-ness that modernity built, while also fostering within the university an intellectual space in which students articulate identity on their own terms. An erudite and ultimately hopeful work of interdisciplinary scholarship that brings linguistic anthropology, Mesoamerican studies, and critical Indigenous studies into the conversation, Undoing Modernity dares to imagine the world on the other side of colonial/modern ideals of Indigeneity"--
  table of contents: Demodern Maya -- Making 'the Maya' -- Speaking Maya, being Maya -- Making Maya linguistics -- Making Maya linguists.
  note: Catherine R. Rhodes.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-293) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
    topic: Study and teaching (Higher)
    geographic: Yucatán Peninsula
  subject:
    topic: Anthropological linguistics
    topic: Study and teaching (Higher)
    geographic: Yucatán Peninsula
  subject:
    topic: Language and culture
    topic: Study and teaching (Higher)
    geographic: Yucatán Peninsula
  subject:
    topic: Native language and education
    geographic: Yucatán Peninsula
  subject:
    topic: Undergraduates
    geographic: Yucatán Peninsula
    topic: Ethnic identity
  subject:
    topic: Mayas
    geographic: Yucatán Peninsula
    topic: Ethnic identity
  subject:
    topic: Detribalization
    geographic: Yucatán Peninsula
  subject:
    topic: Decolonization
    geographic: Yucatán Peninsula
  subject:
    topic: Critical ethnography
    geographic: Yucatán Peninsula
  subject:
    topic: Mayas
    topic: Identité ethnique
    geographic: Yucatán (Péninsule)
  subject:
    topic: Langue maternelle et éducation
    geographic: Yucatán (Péninsule)
  subject:
    topic: Détribalisation
    geographic: Yucatán (Péninsule)
  subject:
    topic: Décolonisation
    geographic: Yucatán (Péninsule)
  classification: P35.5.M6 R46 2025
  classification: 306.4497265
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      title: Undoing modernity
    name:
      name part: Rhodes, Catherine Rebecca.
    origin info:
      publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2025
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2024004406
    identifier: (OCoLC)1420639860
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  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: TxU/DLC
    record creation date: 240130
    record change date: 20250802185339.8
    record identifier: in00005654979
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng