The Legacy of Mesoamerica History and Culture of a Native American Civilization, 2nd Edition

422 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES upon them through national priorities); the use of Spanish thereby becomes eco- nomica ...

CHAPTER 11 LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES OF MESOAMERICA 423 languages are learned by children, but only after they learn Spanish as a s ...

424 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES Box 11.3 Using the Zapotec Language Today The Zapotec language has emerged as an impor ...

CHAPTER 11 LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES OF MESOAMERICA 425 strument” (based on jul,“to shoot, to pierce”). Today, the Academia de las ...

426 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES Box 11.4 Ethnocentrism and Writing Systems Symbol systems that indicate some words or ...

CHAPTER 11 LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES OF MESOAMERICA 427 ploited mostly to spell grammatical elements, and only sparingly used to sp ...

428 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES Box 11.5 Deciphering Epi-Olmec Decipherment is a process of accounting for the pattern ...

CHAPTER 11 LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES OF MESOAMERICA 429 Figure 11.3 Arroyo Pesquero Celts. After Peter David Joralemon, “The Olmec ...

430 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES syllabic spelling emerged out of an earlier system or systems with rebus representatio ...

CHAPTER 11 LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES OF MESOAMERICA 431 construct ancestral vocabulary and grammatical patterns by comparing the di ...

432 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES who remained became the Chiapanecs; those who continued on to Nicaragua became the Man ...

CHAPTER 11 LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES OF MESOAMERICA 433 Box 11.6 The Mesoamericanization of Nahua Uto-Aztecan languages share a num ...

434 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES Culturally important contacts are indicated by the borrowing of vocabulary for cultura ...

CHAPTER 11 LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES OF MESOAMERICA 435 Box 11.7 Linguistic Diffusion from Mixe-Zoquean (from Kaufman and Justeson ...

436 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES Box 11.8 The origin of place-value numeration and the discovery of zero (from Justeson ...

CHAPTER 11 LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES OF MESOAMERICA 437 for the syllable miwas used with period signs in these contexts to say, for ...

438 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES BRICKER, VICTORIAR. (ed.) 1992 Epigraphy.Handbook of Middle American Indians, Suppleme ...

439 CHAPTER 12 WOMEN AND GENDER IN MESOAMERICA On October 16, 1992, Rigoberta Menchú, a Mayan woman from Guatemala, received the ...

440 UNIT 4 MESOAMERICAN CULTURAL FEATURES domestic realms. Women, especially those at lower socioeconomic levels, have always wo ...

CHAPTER 12 WOMEN AND GENDER IN MESOAMERICA 441 tivism in the face of domination and oppression. These themes challenge stereo- t ...