Mayan literacy reinvention in Guatemala / Mary J. Holbrock.
Material type: TextPublisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2016Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780826357243
- 0826357245
- Mayas -- Languages -- Social aspects
- Mayan languages -- Social aspects -- Guatemala
- Languages in contact -- Guatemala
- Literacy -- Social aspects -- Guatemala -- History
- Mayas -- Guatemala -- Government relations
- Mayas -- Languages -- Writing
- Literacy programs -- Guatemala
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Native American Languages
- Languages in contact
- Literacy programs
- Literacy -- Social aspects
- Mayan languages -- Social aspects
- Mayas -- Government relations
- Guatemala
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- F1435.3.E37 H65 2016
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.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 19, 2018).
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