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Pre-Columbian Foodways
The significance of food and feasting to Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures has been extensively studied by archaeologists, anthropologists and art historians. Foodways studies have been critical to our understanding of early agriculture, political economies, and the domestication and management of plants and animals. Scholars from diverse fields have explored the symbolic complexity of food and its preparation, as well as the social importance of feasting in contemporary and historical societies. This book unites these disciplinary perspectives — from the social and biological sciences to art history and epigraphy — creating a work comprehensive in scope, which reveals our increasing u...
Missionary Linguistics II / Lingüística misionera II
This is the second volume to be dedicated to the pioneering linguistic work produced by the religious missionaries who, within the scope of the European colonial enterprises along the period 1550–1850, described dozens of autochthonous languages, many of which are only known today thanks to their endeavours. The twelve papers joint in the present volume — which dedicated special attention to the orthographical and phonological dimension of their work — provide a comprehensive picture of the descriptive problems faced by these linguists avant la lettre, notably: the difficulties faced before the less familiar features of these languages, such as vowel quantity, accentuation, tonality, nasalization, glottalization, ‘gutturalization’; the building of (re)definitions and the creation of a new metalanguage, like ‘saltillo’, ‘guturaciones’, etc.; The book elucidates the creativity and innovations proposed by individual missionaries and the instructive and pedagogical dimension of their work.
El padre y su ausencia
EL pasre y su ausencia se inserta justamente en el terreno de los desarraigados: quienes han sido expulsados del campo y que no se les da alternavia en las ciudades. Sin embargo, la marginación le parece al autor como una lente de aumento: el ve en ella rasgos de muchos mexicanos, que se tratan con gran nitidez. Uno de ellos, la carencia paterna, es motivo del presente texto. Aquí se aborda sobre una materia poco explorada en México: la figura del padre.
Language Contact and Change in the Americas
This unique collection of articles in honor of Marianne Mithun represents the very latest in research on language contact and language change in the Indigenous languages of the Americas. The book aims to provide new theoretical and empirical insights into how and why languages change, especially with regard to contact phenomena in languages of North America, Meso-America and South America. The individual chapters cover a broad range of topics, including sound change, morphosyntactic change, lexical semantics, grammaticalization, language endangerment, and discourse-pragmatic change. With chapters from distinguished scholars and talented newcomers alike, this book will be welcomed by anyone with an interest in internally- and externally-motivated language change.
Vocabulario español-p'urhépecha, p'urhépecha-español
Es poco común encontrar trabajos nacidos de un esfuerzo perseverante de décadas, y mayor valor adquieren si están dirigidos a la educación de los pueblos indígenas. El presente volumen es producto de una investigación realizada durante 46 años en diferentes comunidades p'urhépecha, nahuas, mazahuas y otomíes de Michoacán, y en el estado de Guerrero en las comunidades donde se habla el mixteco y el nahuatlapaneco. Es sumamente preocupante que exista un proceso de extinción de la lengua p'urhépecha debido a la poca atención que reciben los materiales escritos en esta lengua en las escuelas establecidas. Con ello, se pierden paulatinamente la cultura y los valores que se han hereda...
