Transforming Indigeneity : urbanization and language revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon / Sarah Shulist.
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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2018.
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| Series: | Anthropological horizons.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Page i; Anthropological Horizons series; Title page; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 Playing Indian: The Politics of Language, Identity, and Culture in Urban Amazonia; Context; Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Worlds; The Politics of Language Revitalization; Indigeneity and Urbanity; Establishing Collaboration; Chapter Breakdown; 2 City of Transformation: Ethnography and History of a Multilingual Amazon Town; Non-Indigenous Presence; Indigeneity in the State; Indigenous Diversity and Interrelationships; Tukanoans; Arawakan Culture; The Baré
- Revitalization and Transformation3 Language Policy on Paper and in Practice; Origins of Co-officialization; Ten Years Later: Marking the Tenth Anniversary of the Official Language Legislation; The Semiotics of Officialization; Shame, Valorization, and the Creation of an Indigenous Public Space; Public Spaces, Revitalization, and Ideological Transformation; The City as Transformational Space; Differentiating the Three: Creating an Indigenous Linguistic Hierarchy; The â#x80;#x9C;Realâ#x80;#x9D; Language Policy; 4 Education in the City: Defining Urban Indigeneity.
- Education in São Gabriel: Overview and Political/Ideological ContextLanguage Use in the Schools; Informal Language Use and Indigenizing Pedagogical Space; Language-in-Education Policy: Implementation and Justification; Categorizing â#x80;#x9C;Indigenousâ#x80;#x9D; Schools; Orienting to the Outside; Educational Transformations and Indigenous Politics; 5 Making an Indigenous Public: A Perspective from the Non-Official Languages; The Origins of AIPOK: Motivations and Expectations; The Urban Kotiria and Discourses of Endangerment; The Displacement of Indigenous Identity; The Role of Language Learners.
- Ideologies of Education and Learning: Proposing the Kotiria Buâ#x80;#x99;eri Wuâ#x80;#x99;uIdentifying the Barriers to Kotiria in São Gabriel; Imagining the Future of Kotiria in São Gabriel; 6 Revising Expectations: Reflections on the Research Process; Theorizing Collaboration; Policy as a Collaborative Product; Urbanity and Language Documentation; Community, Conflict, and Contradiction; Social Factors in Urban Language Revitalization; Steps Forward; Creating a Model for Urban Collaborations; 7 Conclusions: Language Revitalization and Urban Indigeneity.
- Transforming Indigeneity: The Changing Meaning of Culture and IdentityEffective Engagement with Urban Language Revitalization; Final Considerations; Appendix: Text of São Gabrielâ#x80;#x99;s Language Legislation; Notes; Bibliography; Index.