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One Nation, Many Borders: Language and Identity in Mayan Guatemala and Mexico
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Peckham, Anna Caroline
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1337984066
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Year and Degree
2012, BA, Oberlin College, Anthropology.
Abstract
This paper explores language ideologies, code choice, and ethnolinguistic identity in Maya-dominated areas of Mexico and Guatemala. As the Maya, or Pan-Maya, Movement has grown in scope and force since the 1980s, particularly in Guatemala, possessing a "Maya" identity has become defined in new ways. Since Mayan languages are still spoken with a strong degree of vitality in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and the western highlands of Guatemala, examining Maya identity through beliefs about, and use of, indigenous languages and Spanish is a particularly useful focus. In comparing Maya peoples' beliefs and identities in each of these regions, this paper argues that Maya identity is highly dependent on the historical, political, and cultural context in which it exists.
Committee
Jason Haugen (Advisor)
Pages
86 p.
Subject Headings
Language
;
Latin American Studies
;
Sociolinguistics
Keywords
Spanish
;
Maya
;
Yucatan peninsula
;
Mexico
;
Guatemala
;
language ideologies
;
code choice
;
ethnolinguistic identity
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Peckham, A. C. (2012).
One Nation, Many Borders: Language and Identity in Mayan Guatemala and Mexico
[Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1337984066
APA Style (7th edition)
Peckham, Anna.
One Nation, Many Borders: Language and Identity in Mayan Guatemala and Mexico.
2012. Oberlin College, Undergraduate thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1337984066.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Peckham, Anna. "One Nation, Many Borders: Language and Identity in Mayan Guatemala and Mexico." Undergraduate thesis, Oberlin College, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1337984066
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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