Publications

Publication details [#17995]

King, Linda. 1994. Roots of identity: Language and literacy in Mexico. Stanford University Press. xii + 193 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | language and culture | literacy | writing

Language as a subject

Annotation

This book on illiteracy among the Mexican Indians who maintained their languages, explains why, although pre-Hispanic Mexico had writing systems, Indian groups today are largely agraphic and why, if Maya and Nahuatl were written in the colonial period, that is no longer the case.

Reviewed by

Lastra, Yolanda. 1997. Review of $Roots of identity: Language and literacy in Mexico.

Maxwell, Judith M. 1999. Review of $Roots of identity: Language and literacy in Mexico.