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Adds significantly to our understanding of the specific history and sociolinguistics of K'iche' in Guatemala. This book shows how careful analysis of the minutiae of daily interactive conversational practice encodes, indexes, reveals, and creates the social structure of a community. --Judith Maxwell, associate professor and head of the Interdisciplinary Linguistics Program at Tulane University Romero masterfully blends together three disciplines--ethnography, linguistics, and literary studies--to make a compelling argument about the interrelationship between language and ethnicity. His command of the language and his skill as a linguist shines throughout the book. --Walter E. Little, professor of anthropology, University at Albany--SUNY This book is a tour de force.... Romero successfully blends history, linguistics, religious study, and poetics into a complex picture of social interaction, identity formation and negotiation, as well as political expression. --Journal of Anthropological Research

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Sergio Romero is an assistant professor and director of the Indigenous Language Initiative at the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin. He has worked and lived with the Maya for more than twenty years, especially with the K’ichee’ of highland Guatemala, whose language he speaks fluently. 

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