The Maya Art of Speaking Writing: Remediating Indigenous Orality in the Digital Age by Miller, Tiffany D. Creegan

The Maya Art of Speaking Writing: Remediating Indigenous Orality in the Digital Age

Challenging the distinctions between "old" and "new" media and narratives about the deprecation of orality in favor...
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Author: Tiffany D. Creegan Miller
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Language: English
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The Maya Art of Speaking Writing: Remediating Indigenous Orality in the Digital Age by Miller, Tiffany D. Creegan

The Maya Art of Speaking Writing: Remediating Indigenous Orality in the Digital Age

Dhs. 572.26

The Maya Art of Speaking Writing: Remediating Indigenous Orality in the Digital Age

Dhs. 572.26
Author: Tiffany D. Creegan Miller
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Challenging the distinctions between "old" and "new" media and narratives about the deprecation of orality in favor of inscribed forms, The Maya Art of Speaking Writing draws from Maya concepts of tz'ib' (recorded knowledge) and tzij, choloj, and ch'owen (orality) to look at expressive work across media and languages.

Based on nearly a decade of fieldwork in the Guatemalan highlands, Tiffany D. Creegan Miller discusses images that are sonic, pictorial, gestural, and alphabetic. She reveals various forms of creativity and agency that are woven through a rich media landscape in Indigenous Guatemala, as well as Maya diasporas in Mexico and the United States. Miller discusses how technologies of inscription and their mediations are shaped by human editors, translators, communities, and audiences, as well as by voices from the natural world.

These texts push back not just on linear and compartmentalized Western notions of media but also on the idea of the singular author, creator, scholar, or artist removed from their environment. The persistence of orality and the interweaving of media forms combine to offer a challenge to audiences to participate in decolonial actions through language preservation.

The Maya Art of Speaking Writing calls for centering Indigenous epistemologies by doing research in and through Indigenous languages as we engage in debates surrounding Indigenous literatures, anthropology, decoloniality, media studies, orality, and the digital humanities.


Author: Tiffany D. Creegan Miller
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 05/24/2022
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.14w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780816542352

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