Tiffany D. Creegan Miller
The Maya Art of Speaking Writing: Remediating Indigenous Orality in the Digital Age
The Maya Art of Speaking Writing: Remediating Indigenous Orality in the Digital Age
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The Maya Art of Speaking Writing challenges Western notions of media and narratives about the deprecation of orality by drawing on Maya concepts of tzib, tzij,choloj, and chowen. It reveals various forms of creativity and agency woven through a rich media landscape in Indigenous Guatemala and Maya diasporas, and explores 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. It calls for centering Indigenous epistemologies by doing research in and through Indigenous languages in debates surrounding Indigenous literatures, anthropology, decoloniality, media studies, orality, and the digital humanities.
Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 24 May 2022
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
The Maya Art of Speaking Writing challenges the distinctions between "old" and "new" media and narratives about the deprecation of orality in favor of inscribed forms. Drawing from Maya concepts of tzib (recorded knowledge) and tzij,choloj,and chowen (orality), it explores expressive work across media and languages in Indigenous Guatemala and Maya diasporas in Mexico and the United States. Through nearly a decade of fieldwork, Tiffany D. Creegan Miller reveals various forms of creativity and agency woven through a rich media landscape, as well as the ways in which 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 challenge not only linear and compartmentalized Western notions of media but also 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.
Weight: 243g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780816542352
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