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Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 5 - Linguistics (Paperback)
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This volume, the fifth in the Handbook of Middle American Indians,
presents a summary of work accomplished since the Spanish conquest
in the contemporary description and historical reconstruction of
the indigenous languages and language families of Mexico and
Central America. The essays include the following: "Inventory of
Descriptive Materials" by William Bright; "Inventory of
Classificatory Materials" by Maria Teresa Fernandez de Miranda,
"Lexicostatistic Classification" by Morris Swadesh, "Systemic
Comparison and Reconstruction" by Robert Longacre, and
"Environmental Correlational Studies" by Sarah C. Gudschinsky.
Sketches of Classical Nahuatl by Stanley Newman, Classical Yucatec
Maya by Norman A. McQuown, and Classical Quiche by Munro S.
Edmonson provide working tools for tackling the voluminous early
postconquest texts in these languages of late preconquest empires
(Aztec, Maya, Quiche). Further sketches of Sierra Popoluca by
Benjamin F. Elson, of Isthmus Zapotec by Velma B. Pickett, of
Huautla de Jimenez Mazatec by Eunice V. Pike, of Jiliapan Pame by
Leonardo Manrique C., and of Huamelultec Chontal by Viola
Waterhouse-together with those of Nahuatl, Maya, and Quiche-provide
not only descriptive outlines of as many different linguistic
structures but also linguistic representatives of seven
structurally different families of Middle American languages.
Miguel Leon-Portilla presents an outline of the relations between
language and the culture of which it is a part and provides
examples of some of these relations as revealed by contemporary
research in indigenous Middle America. The volume editor, Norman A.
McQuown (1914-2005), was Professor of Anthropology at The
University of Chicago. He formerly taught at Hunter College and
served with the Mexican Department of Indian Affairs. He carried
out fieldwork with Totonac, Huastec, Tzeltal-Tzotzil, Mame, and
other tribes. The Handbook of Middle American Indians was assembled
and edited at the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane
University with the assistance of grants from the National Science
Foundation and under the sponsorship of the National Research
Council Committee on Latin American Anthropology.
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