Research Catalog

Title

Roots of identity : language and literacy in Mexico / Linda King.

Author

King, Linda, 1949-

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1994.

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Details

Description

xii, 193 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm

Subject

• Indians of Mexico > Languages > Writing > Social aspects
• Literacy > Social aspects > Mexico
• Indians of Mexico > Ethnic identity
• Indians of Mexico > Education
• 18.31 Spanish language
• Ethnic relations
• Literacy > Social aspects
• Alphabetisierung
• Ethnische Identität
• Sprachenfrage
• Lesefähigkeit
• Sprachfertigkeit
• Spaans
• Taal
• Analfabetisme
• Alfabetisme
• Indianen
• Otomi (Indiens) > Mexique > Identité collective
• Bilinguisme > Mexique
• Langues en contact > Mexique
• Ethnicité > Mexique
• Indiens d'Amérique > Mexique > Identité collective
• Indiens d'Amérique > Éducation > Mexique
• Langues indiennes d'Amérique > Mexique > Aspect social
• Analphabétisme > Mexique
• Mexico > Ethnic relations
• Mexico
• Mexiko
• Mexique > Relations interethniques
• Spanisch

Note

• Based on the author's doctoral thesis in Social Anthropology for the University of Oxford.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-188) and index.

Contents

Pt. I. Literacy: Myth and Reality. 1. The Social Nature of Literacy. 2. Pre-Hispanic Writing. 3. Maya and Nahuatl During the Colonial Period. 4. Contemporary Indigenous Literacy and the Growth of Ethnicity -- Pt. II. Language, Literacy, and Education. 5. Language Groups in Mexico. 6. The Pattern of Illiteracy. 7. Literacy Training for Mexican Indians -- Pt. III. The Discourse of the Illiterate. 8. Indigenous Representations of Language and Literacy. 9. The Expression of Illiteracy in the Mestizo World -- Appendix: Interviewing Sites.

ISBN

• 0804721211
• 9780804721219

LCCN

93033888

OCLC

• ocm29258750
• 29258750
• SCSB-2038835

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library