Review published In:
Written Language & LiteracyVol. 2:2 (1999) ► pp.267–270
Book review
. The language of Maya hieroglyphs San Francisco: Pre-Columbian Art Research Institute, 1997. v, 159 pp. Pb. $35.00
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Editor's note: Readers will note that all the book reviews in the present issue are concerned with Maya studies. This is by way of an appetizer, anticipating the following issue of the journal: a special issue on Maya decipherment, guest-edited by Martha Macri and Gabrielle Vail. The issue will include revised versions of papers given at a symposium on Mayan glyphs held at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Seattle, as well as obituaries of several recently deceased Mayanists.
References
Hopkins, Nicholas A.
1981 La influencia del yucatecano sobre el cholano y su contexto histórico. Paper presented to the XVII Mesa Redonda, Sociedad Mexicana de Antropologia, San Cristóbal las Casas, Chiapas, June.
1983 On the history of the Chol language. Paper presented to the 1983 Palenque Mesa Redonda.
Houston, Stephen; Robertson, John; & Stuart, David
1998 Disharmony in Maya hieroglyphic writing: Linguistic change and continuity in Classic society. In Andrés Ciudad Ruiz et al. (eds.), Anatomía de una civilización: Aproximaciones interdisciplinarias a la cultura maya, 275–96. Madrid: Sociedad Española de Estudios Mayas.
Vail, Gabrielle
1999 Issues of language and ethnicity in the postclassic Maya codices. To appear In Written Language & Literacy, 3:1.