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.
Table of Contents:
  • Playing Indian: the politics of language, identity, and culture in urban Amazonia
  • City of transformation: ethnography and history of a multilingual Amazon town
  • Language policy on paper and in practice
  • Education in the city: defining urban indigeneity
  • Making an indigenous public: a perspective from the non-official languages
  • Revising expectations: reflections on the research process
  • Conclusions: language revitalization and urban indigeneity.

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