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...
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Author: Michael Wroblewski
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Remaking Kichwa: Language and Indigenous Pluralism in Amazonian Ecuador by Wroblewski, Michael

Remaking Kichwa: Language and Indigenous Pluralism in Amazonian Ecuador

$150.80

Remaking Kichwa: Language and Indigenous Pluralism in Amazonian Ecuador

$150.80
Author: Michael Wroblewski
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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 indigenous Kichwa communities, Michael Wroblewski explores adaptations to culture contact, language revitalization, and political mobilization through discourse.

Expanding the ethnographic picture of native Amazonians and their traditional discourse practices, this book focuses attention on Kichwas' diverse engagements with rural and urban ways of living, local and global ways of speaking, and Indigenous and dominant intellectual traditions. Wroblewski reveals the composite nature of indigenous words and worlds through conversational interviews, oral history narratives, political speechmaking, and urban performance media, showing how discourse is a critical focal point for studying cultural adaptation. Highlighting how Kichwas assert autonomy through creative forms of self-representation, Remaking Kichwa moves the study of Indigenous language into the globalized era and offers innovative reconsiderations of Indigeneity, discourse, and identity.

Author: Michael Wroblewski
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 03/24/2022
Pages: 214
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9781350212817

About the Author
Michael Wroblewski is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Grand Valley State University, USA.

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