{"product_id":"9781477331088-undoing-modernity","title":"Undoing Modernity","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLinguistics, Higher Education, and Indigeneity in Yucatan\u003cbr\u003eUndoing Modernity follows students and their teachers as they upset the seemingly stable ethnic definition of Maya, by studying linguistics and culture in their own language. An erudite and ultimately hopeful work, Undoing Modernity dares to imagine the world on the other side of colonial\/modern ideals of Indigeneity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn ethnography of the decolonization of Maya-ness.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e On the Yucatan Peninsula today, undergraduates are inventing a new sense of being Maya by studying linguistics and culture in their own language: Maya. In this bold theoretical intervention informed by ethnographic research, Catherine Rhodes argues that these students are undoing the category of modernity itself. Created through colonization of the Americas, modernity is the counterpart to coloniality; the students, Rhodes suggests, are creating decoloniality’s companion: “demodernity.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Disciplines like linguistics, anthropology, history, and archaeology invented “the Maya” as an essentialized \u003ci\u003eethnos\u003c\/i\u003e in a colonial, modern mold. \u003ci\u003eUndoing Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e follows students and their teachers as they upset the seemingly stable ethnic definition of Maya, with its reliance on a firm dichotomy of Maya and modern. Maya linguistics does not prove that Maya is modern but instead rejects the Maya-ness that modernity built, while also fostering within the university an intellectual space in which students articulate identity on their own terms. An erudite and ultimately hopeful work of interdisciplinary scholarship that brings linguistic anthropology, Mesoamerican studies, and critical Indigenous studies into the conversation, \u003ci\u003eUndoing Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e dares to imagine the world on the other side of colonial\/modern ideals of Indigeneity. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55153168580982,"sku":"9781477331088","price":27.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35410000.jpg?v=1752787339","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781477331088-undoing-modernity","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}