Sarah Shulist

Transforming Indigeneity

Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon

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Produktbeschreibung

Transforming Indigeneity is an examination of the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781487522193
• ISBN-10: 1487522193
• Artikelnr.: 49448168

Autorenporträt

Sarah Shulist is an assistant professor of Anthropology at MacEwan University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Playing Indian: The Politics of Language, Identity, and Culture in Urban
Amazonia
2. Language Policy on Paper and in Practice
3. Education in the City: Defining Urban Indigeneity
4. Making an Indigenous Public: A Perspective from the Non-Official
Languages
5. Revising Expectations: Reflections on the Research Process
6. Conclusions: Language Revitalization and Urban Indigeneity