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Virtual Anthropology Club meeting
February 24, 2021
The meeting will begin at 6pm to discuss the process behind his research as well as his findings.
Please consider joining us for this fun, interactive event! If you are planning to attend, please email [email protected] to RSVP and receive a debrief.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://gvsu-edu.zoom.us/j/98897985858?pwd=M1Z5aEFOWTJIaDBBa21xVG95cTJ3UT09
Meeting ID: 988 9798 5858
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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.
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Have a good afternoon,
Capriana