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Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Accent and Ethnic Identity in the Maya Highlands -- 2. Orthographies, Foreigners, and Pure K'ichee' -- 3. "Each Town Speaks Its Own Language" -- 4. A "Hybrid" Language -- 5. "Ancestor Power Is Maya Power" -- 6. The Changing Voice of the Ancestors -- References -- Index.

Book reviewed in this article:LINGUISTICS: Pis'mennost' (Writing of the Maya Indians). . V. Knorosov.

Second only to the Quechua-speaking peoples of the Andes, the Maya of southeastern Mexico and Guatemala constitute the "most impressive surviving American culture in the Western Hemisphere" (Vogt 1969a, 21). In Mexico the main division within the Maya falls between the highland population living in the state of Chiapas and the lowland group residing in the Yucatán Peninsula (Vogt 1969b). People of mixed Spanish and Indian ancestry, known locally as ladinos, make up most of the remaining population. Inspired by the well-known series of investigations of Indian and mestizo fertility in the Andean region, the present study seeks to describe within Mexico the fertility differences between the highland and lowland Maya and their ladino neighbors and, within the limits of the data, to account for the observed differentials.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- 1 Life, Death, and Lines of Containment -- 2 Natives of Bleeding Land -- 3 The Return to "Maya Ruins -- 4 Colonial Enclosures -- 5 Arrival 1927: The Formation of Ethno-Boundaries -- 6 Bricks and Borders -- 7 Extended Knowledges: Making Use of all Possible Routes -- 8 The Jacaltenango Road -- 9 Legendary Travelers -- 10 Of Fields and Dreams -- 11 Moving Histories -- 12 Guadelupe Victoria: Jacalteco Town in Mexico -- 13 Beyond the Cutting Edge: Religion, Place, and Transition -- 14 Conclusion -- References.

Global highlands : in context, in theory, and in practice -- Economic ideology in culture : oral tradition -- Economic ideology in petty industrial production : tailors of San Francisco el Alto -- Economic ideology in petty commodity agricultural production : gardeners of San Pedro Almolonga -- Economic ideology in the production of nontraditional agricultural export crops -- Economic ideology in industrial wage labor : from land to factory -- It takes work to shape our thinking : global Guatemala in local terms