Indigenous Languages, Politics, and Authority in Latin America (eBook, ePUB)

Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives
Redaktion: Durston, Alan; Mannheim, Bruce

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume makes a vital and original contribution to a topic that lies at the intersection of the fields of history, anthropology, and linguistics. The book is the first to consider indigenous languages as vehicles of political orders in Latin America from the sixteenth century to the present, across regional and national contexts, including Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, and Paraguay. The chapters focus on languages that have been prominent in multiethnic colonial and national societies and are well represented in the written record: Guarani, Quechua, some of the Mayan languages, Nahuatl, and other Mesoamerican languages. The contributors put into dialogue the questions and methodologies that have animated anthropological and historical approaches to the topic, including ethnohistory, philology, language politics and ideologies, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and metapragmatics. Some of the historical chapters deal with how political concepts and discourses were expressed in indigenous languages, while others focus on multilingualism and language hierarchies, where some indigenous languages, or language varieties, acquired a special status as mediums of written communication and as elite languages. The ethnographic chapters show how the deployment of distinct linguistic varieties in social interaction lays bare the workings of social differentiation and social hierarchy.

Contributors: Alan Durston, Bruce Mannheim, Sabine MacCormack, Bas van Doesburg, Camilla Townsend, Capucine Boidin, Angélica Otazú Melgarejo, Judith M. Maxwell, Margarita Huayhua.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780268103729
• Artikelnr.: 50101223

Autorenporträt

Bruce Mannheim is professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is the author and co-author of a number of books, including The Language of the Inka since the European Invasion.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Alan Durston and Bruce Mannheim
1. "The Discourse of My Life:" What Language Can Do (Early Colonial Views
on Quechua) by Sabine MacCormack
2. Colonial Written Culture in the Coixtlahuaca Basin, Oaxaca, Mexico by
Sebastian van Doesburg
3. The Politics of the Aztec Histories by Camilla Townsend
4. Toward a Guarani Semantic History: Political Vocabulary in Guarani
(Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries) by Capucine Boidin and Angélica Otazú
5. Quechua-Language Government Propaganda in 1920s Peru by Alan Durston
6. Mayan Languages: A New Dawn? by Judith Maxwell
7. "Returning to Albó: 'The Future of the Oppressed Languages' at 40" by
Bruce Mannheim
8. "Building Differences: The (Re)production of Hierarchical Relations
among Women in the Southern Andes" by Margarita Huayhua