Author: Hervik, Peter
Title: The Position of Language & Cultures in the Yucatecan Landscape
Description: Copenhagen, Institute of Anthropology, 1992. orig.wrappers. 30x20cm, (12),143 pp, University of Copenhagen doctoral dissertation.. Textual photos. Minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Introductory Essay: Culture, Categorization & Cognition: The Town of Oxkutzcab, Yucatan; Cognitive Anthropology; The Study of Categorization; Linguistic & Cognitive Categories; Bilingual Communication Systems: Prior Studies of Bilingualism; The Outline of Bilingual Communication Systems; The Typology of Bilingual Communication Systems; Perspectives; Social Categories in Yucatan: Social Categories of the Colonial Period; The Caste War; The Development of Social Categories 1870 to 1935; Social Categories in Oxkutzcab; Mayan Culture - Beyond Boundaries;Mestizos & Mestizo Culture in Yucatan; Mayan Experts - Mayanists; Original & Contemporary Cultural Autonomy; Participant Observation in Popular Religion: Participant Observation of the Okosta Pol; The Celebration of the Okosta Pol; The 'Threatened' Mayas; Okosta Pol as Participant Observation; Okosta Pol as Popular Religion; Conclusions.

Keywords: Cultural Anthropology, Maya Ethnography, Ethnology Sociology, Mexico Language, Native Americans, American Indians, Mayan Mayas, Yucatecan, Sociolinguistics