“An interesting contrast between two very different Maya communities detailing how literacy interacts with past and present lives, illustrated with pictures and excerpts, this work brings together a panoply of texts, from glyphic to woven, situated within their sociopolitical milieu.”—Judith M. Maxwell, coauthor of ¿La ütz awäch? Introduction to Kaqchikel Maya Language
“Explores an important and under-studied area of Literacy Studies: complex, nonalphabetic ‘writing’ and its revival among contemporary Maya in Guatemala. Along with other work on Latin American literacy, the understandings provided here challenge our very definitions of the term.”—Marcia Farr, coeditor of Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Education: Language, Literacy, and Culture