M Eleanor Nevins

Lessons from Fort Apache

Beyond Language Endangerment and Maintenance

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Produktbeschreibung

This study deploys detailed analysis of the language dynamics in the Fort Apache indigenous community in North America to explore deepening global concerns over diminishing linguistic heritages. Moving beyond a narrow focus on linguistic documentation, the author examines the ways in which the linguistic and cultural identities of indigenous populations are subsumed by larger socio-cultural groupings and interests. Nevins provides a much-needed appraisal of the potential conflicts between community members and the educators and scholars who research their unique linguistic heritage.

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This incisive ethnographic analysis of indigenous language documentation, maintenance, and revitalization focuses on linguistic heritage issues on the Native American reservation at Fort Apache and explores the broader social, political and religious influences on changing language practices in indigenous communities. * Offers a focused ethnographic analysis of an indigenous community that also explores global issues of language endangerment and maintenance and their socio-historical contexts * Addresses the complexities and conflicts in language documentation and revitalization programs, and how they articulate with localized discourse genres, education practices, religious beliefs, and politics * Examines differing evaluations of language loss, and maintenance, among members of affected communities, and their creative responses to challenges posed by encompassing socio-cultural regimes, including university accredited language experts * Provides an ethnographic analysis of speech in indigenous communities that moves beyond narrowly conceived language documentation to consider changing linguistic and social identities

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons / Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 173mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781118424230
• ISBN-10: 1118424239
• Artikelnr.: 36733558

Autorenporträt

M. Eleanor Nevins is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Middlebury College, Vermont, USA. A specialist in linguistic and cultural anthropology, her work addresses the interplay of language, education, religion, globalization, and indigenous communities. An accomplished scholar of Western Apache poetics and rhetoric, Nevins teaches courses in linguistic and cultural anthropology, ethnography, and Native American literatures. Her work has appeared in a number of edited volumes as well as in the journals Language in Society, Language and Communication, Heritage Management, and Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments viii 1. Introduction 1 2. Indigenous Languages and the
Mediation of Communities 12 3. Learning to Listen: Coming to Terms with
Conflicting Meanings of Language Loss 47 4. They Live in Lonesome Dove:
English in Indigenous Places 79 5. Stories in the Moment of Encounter:
Documentation Boundary Work 113 6. What No Coyote Story Means: The
Borderland Genre of Traditional Storytelling 152 7. "Some 'No No' and Some
'Yes'": Silence, Agency, and Traditionalist Words 186 8. Sustainability:
Possible Socialities of Documentation and Maintenance 215 Appendix A:
Lawrence Mithlo 229 Appendix B: Eva Lupe on Her Early Life 237 Index 250