Apocalypto
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Robert Fish
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 23, no. 2, Fall, 2008, pp. 120-121
Description
Review of the movie: Apocalypto directed by Mel Gibson.
Compares Registered Indians to Canada's general population in three components: life expectancy, education and income.
Examines the role of archeology as both a the study of the past but also as a means to find a solutions for the future.
Looks at characteristics of the population that would have found the mixed language useful and how it developed through marriages between traders and Indigenous women.
Chapter from: Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages edited by Ernst Håkon Jahr and Ingvild Broch