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Undoing modernity : linguistics, higher education, and indigeneity in Yucatan /

"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 catego...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rhodes, Catherine Rebecca (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2025.
Edition:First edition.
Series:William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere.
Subjects:
Linguistics > Study and teaching (Higher) > Yucatán Peninsula.
Anthropological linguistics > Study and teaching (Higher) > Yucatán Peninsula.
Language and culture > Study and teaching (Higher) > Yucatán Peninsula.
Native language and education > Yucatán Peninsula.
Undergraduates > Yucatán Peninsula > Ethnic identity.
Mayas > Yucatán Peninsula > Ethnic identity.
Detribalization > Yucatán Peninsula.
Decolonization > Yucatán Peninsula.
Critical ethnography > Yucatán Peninsula.
Mayas > Identité ethnique > Yucatán (Péninsule)
Langue maternelle et éducation > Yucatán (Péninsule)
Détribalisation > Yucatán (Péninsule)
Décolonisation > Yucatán (Péninsule)
Table of Contents:
  • Demodern Maya
  • Making 'the Maya'
  • Speaking Maya, being Maya
  • Making Maya linguistics
  • Making Maya linguists.