This volume makes a vital and original contribution to a topic that lies at the intersection of the fields of history, anthropology, and linguistics. The book is the first to consider indigenous languages as vehicles of political orders in Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present, across regional and national contexts, including Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, and Paraguay. The chapters focus on languages that have been prominent in multiethnic colonial and national societies and are well represented in the written record: Guarani, Quechua, some of the Mayan languages, Nahuatl, and other Mesoamerican languages. The contributors put into dialogue the questions and methodologies that have animated anthropological and historical approaches to the topic, including ethnohistory, philology, language politics and ideologies, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and metapragmatics. Some of the historical chapters deal with how political concepts and discourses were expressed in indigenous languages, while others focus on multilingualism and language hierarchies, where some indigenous languages, or language varieties, acquired a special status as mediums of written communication and as elite languages. The ethnographic chapters show how the deployment of distinct linguistic varieties in social interaction lays bare the workings of social differentiation and social hierarchy.

Contributors: Alan Durston, Bruce Mannheim, Sabine MacCormack, Bas van Doesburg, Camilla Townsend, Capucine Boidin, Angélica Otazú Melgarejo, Judith M. Maxwell, Margarita Huayhua.

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Information

Publisher

University of Notre Dame Press

Year

2018

ISBN

9780268103729

Topic

History

Subtopic

Latin American & Caribbean History

Index

History

Cover
Halftitle
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
One “The Discourse of My Life”: What Language Can Do (Early Colonial Views on Quechua)
Two Colonial Written Culture in the Coixtlahuaca Basin, Oaxaca, Mexico
Three The Politics of the Aztec Histories
Four Toward a Guarani Semantic History: Political Vocabulary in Guarani (Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries)
Five Quechua-Language Government Propaganda in 1920s Peru
Six Mayan Languages: A New Dawn?
Seven Xavier Albó’s “The Future of the Oppressed Languages in the Andes,” Revisited
Eight Building Differences: The (Re)production of Hierarchical Relations among Women in the Southern Andes
List of Contributors
Index