Transforming indigeneity : urbanization and language revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon /

Transforming indigeneity : urbanization and language revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon / Sarah Shulist.

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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. Sarah Shulist concentrates on how debates, discussions, and practices aimed at providing support for the Indigenous languages of t...

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Main Author: Shulist, Sarah, 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
Series:Anthropological horizons.
Subjects:
Language revival > Brazil > São Gabriel da Cachoeira.
Indigenous peoples > Brazil > São Gabriel da Cachoeira > Languages.
Urbanization > Brazil > São Gabriel da Cachoeira.
Multilingualism > Brazil > São Gabriel da Cachoeira.
Ethnic relations.
Language and languages.
Language revival.
Multilingualism.
Social change.
Social conditions.
Urbanization.
17.30 psycholinguistics: general.
São Gabriel da Cachoeira (Brazil) > Ethnic relations.
São Gabriel da Cachoeira (Brazil) > Social conditions.
Brazil > São Gabriel da Cachoeira.
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Summary: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. Sarah Shulist concentrates on how debates, discussions, and practices aimed at providing support for the Indigenous languages of the region shed light on both global issues of language revitalization and on the meaning of Indigeneity in contemporary Brazil.
Physical Description:xiv, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-228) and index.
ISBN:9781487522193
1487522193
9781487502874
1487502877

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