{"product_id":"undoing-modernity-linguistics-higher-education-and-indigeneity-in-yucatan-hardback-9781477330579","title":"Undoing Modernity; Linguistics, Higher Education, and Indigeneity in Yucatan (Hardback) 9781477330579","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUndoing Modernity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLinguistics, Higher Education, and Indigeneity in Yucatan\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCatherine R. Rhodes (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477330579, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 7 January 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages, 11 b\u0026amp;w photos, 1 map\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Catherine Rhodes takes a new theoretical approach to enduring questions of Mayan language revitalization, standardization, and pedagogy from a grounded ethnographic perspective. \u003ci\u003eUndoing Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e makes substantial contributions to transdisciplinary understandings of decolonization, Indigeneity, and critical efforts to configure unequal worlds differently.\" - Brigittine M. French, \u003ci\u003eGrinnell College\u003c\/i\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eMaya Ethnolinguistic Identity: Violence, Cultural Rights, and Modernity in Highland Guatemala\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This lively and detailed work raises the question of what it means to be Maya-and by extension, what it means to be Indigenous-through the process of undoing modernist approaches to language and culture. Throughout her deep ethnographic study of a Maya university in the Yucatan, Catherine Rhodes challenges us to reconsider the intellectual and institutional foundations that we often take for granted.\" - Anna M. Babel, \u003ci\u003eThe Ohio State University\u003c\/i\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eBetween the Andes and the Amazon: Language and Social Meaning in Bolivia\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn ethnography of the decolonization of Maya-ness.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e On the Yucatan Peninsula today, undergraduates are inventing a new sense of being Maya by studying linguistics and culture in their own language: Maya. In this bold theoretical intervention informed by ethnographic research, Catherine Rhodes argues that these students are undoing the category of modernity itself. Created through colonization of the Americas, modernity is the counterpart to coloniality; the students, Rhodes suggests, are creating decoloniality’s companion: “demodernity.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Disciplines like linguistics, anthropology, history, and archaeology invented “the Maya” as an essentialized \u003ci\u003eethnos\u003c\/i\u003e in a colonial, modern mold. \u003ci\u003eUndoing Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e follows students and their teachers as they upset the seemingly stable ethnic definition of Maya, with its reliance on a firm dichotomy of Maya and modern. Maya linguistics does not prove that Maya is modern but instead rejects the Maya-ness that modernity built, while also fostering within the university an intellectual space in which students articulate identity on their own terms. An erudite and ultimately hopeful work of interdisciplinary scholarship that brings linguistic anthropology, Mesoamerican studies, and critical Indigenous studies into the conversation, \u003ci\u003eUndoing Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e dares to imagine the world on the other side of colonial\/modern ideals of Indigeneity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e List of Images, Tables, and Maps \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1. Demodern Maya \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 2. Making ‘\u003cbr\u003ethe Maya’\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 3. Speaking Maya, Being Maya \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 4. Making Maya Linguistics \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 5. Making Maya Linguists \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Conclusion \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e References \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591020638488,"sku":"9781477330579","price":63.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/undoing-modernity-linguistics-higher-education-and-indigeneity-in-yucatan-hardback-9781477330579","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}