ISBN:
9781137412423
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (169 p)
Series Statement:
Language and Globalization
Series Statement:
Language and Globalization Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Back, Michele Transcultural Performance : Negotiating Globalized Indigenous Identities
DDC:
300
Keywords:
Ethnology-Latin America
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Globalization, indigenous languages, and the Runa Takiks -- Rationale -- The Runa Takiks and the Otavalos: A brief history -- Key terms -- Chapter summary and a look ahead -- 2 Globalized or glocalized? Transnational or transcultural? Defining language practices in global spaces -- Introduction -- Global- and glocal-ization -- Transnational, translingual, transcultural -- Language maintenance and globalization -- Toward a transcultural perspective on globalization and language maintenance
Abstract:
Chapter summary and a look ahead -- 3 Theorizing transcultural language practices -- Introduction -- Theories of identity and language use: A brief history -- Identity in interaction -- Symbolic competence -- Symbolic performance and performative competence -- Analyzing transcultural language practices -- Chapter summary and a look ahead -- 4 Gender and beliefs about language -- Introduction -- Women as gatekeepers: Gender and minority language use -- Gender, language beliefs, and language use -- Gender and beliefs about Quichua's future
Abstract:
Opening the gate: The Quichua paradox in transcultural settings -- Chapter summary and a look ahead -- 5 Transcultural performances of gender -- Introduction -- Theories on gender, language, and transnationalism -- Gender at home and abroad: Performances of space and time -- Performing sexuality and hypermasculinity -- Transcultural gender in interaction -- Accepting and resisting context: Transcultural constructions of gender -- Chapter summary and a look ahead -- 6 Transcultural performances of ethnicity -- Introduction -- The Otavalos: Myths, perceptions, realities
Abstract:
'Where are you from?' Negotiating ethnic identities with English-speaking customers -- Andean Latino authenticity: Performing pan-Latin identities -- The 'mall' of Otavalo -- Transcultural indigeneities: Ethnicity as strategic, contextual, and negotiated -- Chapter summary and a look ahead -- 7 Transcultural performance and legitimacy: Seven years later -- Introduction -- The Runa Takiks now -- Transcultural hair practices, reactive positioning, and legitimate Quichua -- Contesting language loss: Voices of the new generation -- Language loss and gain in transcultural spaces
Abstract:
Chapter summary and a look ahead -- 8 Conclusions and implications for indigenous and minority languages -- Transcultural language beliefs and practices -- Transcultural performances of gender -- Transcultural performances of ethnicity -- Transcultural Quichua: Successes, challenges, implications -- Revisiting theory: Transcultural performance -- Future research and final words -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 5 -- Appendix 1: Participants and family relationship, by provenance -- I. Huamán family, Peguche -- II. Band members unrelated to Marco
Abstract:
Appendix 2: Transcription conventions used in Chapters 5 to 7
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