Remaking Kichwa : language and indigenous pluralism in Amazonian Ecuador /

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 ethnogra...

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Main Author: Wroblewski, Michael (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2021]
Series:Bloomsbury studies in linguistic anthropology.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:xi, 200 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781350115552
135011555X
9781350212817
1350212814