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Mayan literacy reinvention in Guatemala / Mary J. Holbrock.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2016Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780826357243
  • 0826357245
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mayan literacy reinvention in Guatemala.DDC classification:
  • 497/.42 23
LOC classification:
  • F1435.3.E37 H65 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- History of Mayan literacy -- Oral and written uses of Mayan languages -- Issues of personal literacy use in the Mayan communities -- Print media in Mayan languages -- Environmental print -- Mayan literacy in education -- Weaving the threads of Mayan literacy -- Afterword.
Summary: Through this investigation, the promises and pitfalls of a literacy-revitalization endeavor are detailed and our understanding of the concept of literacy is reexamined.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- History of Mayan literacy -- Oral and written uses of Mayan languages -- Issues of personal literacy use in the Mayan communities -- Print media in Mayan languages -- Environmental print -- Mayan literacy in education -- Weaving the threads of Mayan literacy -- Afterword.

Through this investigation, the promises and pitfalls of a literacy-revitalization endeavor are detailed and our understanding of the concept of literacy is reexamined.

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