How can democratization, coupled with transnational integration, resolve conflicts over cultural difference in places that are marked by legacies of nationalist competition? This book explores that ...question through a comparative study of contestations over language use in the heart of the post-Communist region. Zsuzsa Csergo notes that newly independent governments looked to rejoin the West, in particular the European Union, while at the same time asserting control over the institutions they considered key to the reproduction of national cultures. These national projects resulted in renewed salience for minority language rights and a complicated politics triggering EU concerns about the treatment of regional/cultural minorities. Csergo's field research in Romania, Hungary, and Slovakia leads her to make a bold claim about the primacy of domestic politics in the construction of democratic solutions to the conundrum of nation building and minority rights. Talk of the Nation breaks new ground by focusing on both majority and minority political elites and parties in interethnic relations. Csergo challenges arguments about the overwhelming importance of international influence. Her book demonstrates that the role of domestic political actors in interethnic reconciliation is not merely that of compliance with international requirements or effectiveness in responding to external pressure—they are largely guided by the internal democratic process.
This revealing analysis of everyday language use among Moroccan immigrant children in Spain explores their cultural and linguistic life-worlds as they develop a hybrid, yet coherent, sense of ...identity in their multilingual communities. The author shows how they adapt to the local ambivalence toward Muslim culture and increased surveillance by Spanish authorities. * Offers ground-breaking research from linguistic anthropology charting the politics of childhood in Muslim immigrant communities in Spain * Illuminates the contemporary debates concerning assimilation and alienation in Europe's immigrant Muslim and North African populations * Provides an integrated blend of theory and empirical ethnographic data * Enriches recent research on immigrant children with analyses of their sense of belonging, communicative practices,and emerging processes of identification
The prehistory of the Eastern Himalaya has forever been shrouded in legend. In this pioneering volume, a group of world-leading linguists and anthropologists reconstruct its extraordinary prehistory ...from an interdisciplinary perspective for the first time.
Little India Eisenlohr, Patrick; Eisenlohr, Patrick
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Little India is a rich historical and ethnographic examination of a fascinating example of linguistic plurality on the island of Mauritius, where more than two-thirds of the population is of Indian ...ancestry. Patrick Eisenlohr's groundbreaking study focuses on the formation of diaspora as mediated through the cultural phenomenon of Indian ancestral languages—principally Hindi, which is used primarily in religious contexts. Eisenlohr emphasizes the variety of cultural practices that construct and transform boundaries in communities in diaspora and illustrates different modes of experiencing the temporal relationships between diaspora and homeland.
Have wireless, mobile communication technologies - phones, laptops and tablets - changed the way people talk to one another? What does it mean to be able to speak or write to anyone, anywhere, ...24/7/365, and get an immediate response? And what does the current profusion of these technologies mean for the study of language in social life? Do we need to develop new approaches, methodologies and theories? Taking a global perspective, this volume provides readers with a nuanced, ethnographically-informed understanding of mobile communication and sociolinguistics. The text explores a wide range of digital applications, including SMS, email, tweeting, Facebook, YouTube, chatting, blogging, Wikipedia, Second Life and gaming. It raises important questions about the nature of language, the role of multimodality and intertextuality in creating meaning, the realities and consequences of digital linguistic inequality. The formation of virtual communities, ways of online socialising and the performance of the 'self' are explored. Based on a multicultural and multilingual approach, the volume provides a comprehensive and intriguing overview of digital communication for both students and researchers.
La recherche ethnologique et ethnolinguistique peut poser un large éventail de défis éthiques différents pour les chercheurs et les communautés dans lesquelles ils travaillent. Les ethnologues et les ...ethnolinguistes étudient les sociétés humaines sous différents angles pour comprendre leurs caractères culturels, leurs variabilités linguistiques, etc. Ces recherches peuvent faire progresser la compréhension que l'on a des groupes sociaux et contribuer à la production de connaissances, et peuvent même parfois être bénéfiques pour certaines communautés. Mais elle peut aussi créer des risques pour les participants et les communautés (par exemple perte de la vie privée, stigmatisation, persécution), et pour les chercheurs eux-mêmes (par exemple perte d'accès à une zone de terrain, perte de contrôle du processus et des résultats de la recherche). Ces risques et autres défis éthiques, ainsi que les moyens d'y faire face, méritent une attention particulière de la part des ethnologues et de l'ethnolinguistique. Mots-clés anthropologie, risques, sujets sensibles, ethnologie, ethnolinguistique Ethnological and ethnolinguistic research can pose a wide range of different ethical challenges for researchers and the communities in which they work. Ethnologists and ethnolinguists study human societies from different angles to understand their cultural traits, linguistic variability, etc. Such research can advance our understanding of social groups and contribute to the production of knowledge and may even benefit certain communities. But it can also create risks for participants and communities (e.g., loss of privacy, stigmatization, persecution), and for researchers themselves (e.g., loss of access to a field area, loss of control over the research process and results). These risks and other ethical challenges, and the means to address them, deserve special attention from ethnologists and ethnolinguistics. Keywords anthropology, risks, sensitive subjects, ethnology, ethnolinguistics
Ethnology and Empiretells stories about words and ideas, and ideas about words that developed in concert with shifting conceptions about Native peoples and western spaces in the nineteenth-century ...United States. Contextualizing the emergence of Native American linguistics as both a professionalized research discipline and as popular literary concern of American culture prior to the U.S.-Mexico War, Robert Lawrence Gunn reveals the manner in which relays between the developing research practices of ethnology, works of fiction, autobiography, travel narratives, Native oratory, and sign languages gave imaginative shape to imperial activity in the western borderlands.
In literary and performative settings that range from the U.S./Mexico borderlands to the Great Lakes region of Tecumseh's Pan-Indian Confederacy and the hallowed halls of learned societies in New York and Philadelphia,Ethnology and Empiremodels an interdisciplinary approach to networks of peoples, spaces, and communication practices that transformed the boundaries of U.S. empire through a transnational and scientific archive. Emphasizing the culturally transformative impacts western expansionism and Indian Removal,Ethnology and Empirereimagines U.S. literary and cultural production for future conceptions of hemispheric American literatures.
This study examines the classification and function of toponyms to reveal the local knowledge of Sundanese people in the western Bandung-North area. This research uses anthropological linguistic ...theory. The data of this research are lexicon in toponyms based on local knowledge in the western Bandung-North area. The data is sourced from several community components consisting of village elders and ordinary people. The study incorporates four methods for data collection, which are participant observation, participatory conversation observation, interviews, and documentation. These techniques are chosen based on their ability to gather comprehensive, accurate, and reliable data. The results show that there are five classifications of toponyms, namely (1) hydrological-biological characteristics, (2) hydrological-state characteristics, (3) geomorphological-biological characteristics, (4) geomorphological-state characteristics, and (5) state characteristics. This research also shows that the lexicon in toponyms in the western Bandung-North area portrays the closeness of humans to nature, humans to humans, and humans to their God. In addition, Sundanese people in the western Bandung-North area also have local knowledge about ethnoecology, which is recorded in the toponyms in the area. This local knowledge of ethnoecology has benefits as an effort to maintain the terrestrial ecosystem, which is one of the pillars of environmental development in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
El artículo reflexiona acerca de las experiencias de una investigadora de origen tsotsil formada en los campos de la lingüística y la lingüística antropológica, quién habita en el mismo espacio ...territorial de la comunidad de estudio. Específicamente, examina cuáles son las implicaciones y los retos de ser mujer, tsotsil e investigadora, que, por un lado, se adentra en los espacios sociales y comunitarios que son exclusivos de los hombres, y por otro, incursiona en un campo que había sido privilegio de investigadores externos. La autora parte de una epistemología que propone el estudio del "nosotros" en contraste con las investigaciones establecidas en el estudio de los "otros". Aporta una serie de metodologías para la investigación "desde dentro" que parten de la necesidad del conocimiento de los recursos culturales, el diálogo desde el mismo código lingüístico, la ecología de formulación de preguntas, las prácticas de reciprocidad, la anteposición de los intereses colectivos, la empatía, así como la conciencia de vivir en el escrutinio comunitario. Finalmente, propone un acercamiento a las comunidades de estudio de forma humanamente significativa y no sólo metodológicamente correcta.
