Language Revitalization and Indigenous Remaking in Amazonia
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Publication
2021 - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Language
English
Word Count
60,000 words, Guess
Page Count
240 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL29518025M
- ISBN-139781350115552
- OCLC Control Number1238133865
Classifications
- LCCF2230.2.K4W76 2021
Description
"Investigating the efforts of the Kichwa of Tena, Ecuador to reverse language shift to Spanish, this book examines the ways in which indigenous language can be revitalized and how creative bilingual forms of discourse can reshape the identities and futures of local populations. Based on deep ethnographic fieldwork among urban, periurban, and rural Kichwa communities, Michael Wroblewski explores adaptations to culture contact, language revitalization, and political mobilization through discourse to move the study of indigenous language into the globalized era and offer innovative reconsiderations of indigeneity, discourse, and identity"--
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