Transcultural Performance: Negotiating Globalized Indigenous Identities

169 Pages·2015·1.033 MB·Language and Globalization

by  Michele Back (auth.)

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Michele Back
TRANSCULTURAL PERFORMANCE
Negotiating Globalized Indigenous Identities
David Block
MULTILINGUAL IDENTITIES IN A GLOBAL CITY
London Stories
Jan Blommaert, Sirpa Leppänen, Päivi Pahta and Tiina Räisänen (editors)
DANGEROUS MULTILINGUALISM
Northern Perspectives on Order, Purity and Normality
Jenny Carl and Patrick Stevenson (editors)
LANGUAGE, DISCOURSE AND IDENTITY IN CENTRAL EUROPE
The German Language in a Multilingual Space
Diarmait Mac Giolla Chrióst
LANGUAGE AND THE CITY
Elise DuBord
LANGUAGE, IMMIGRATION AND LABOR
Julian Edge (editor)
(RE)LOCATING TESOL IN AN AGE OF EMPIRE
John Edwards
CHALLENGES IN THE SOCIAL LIFE OF LANGUAGE
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Aleksandra Galasin´ska and Michał Krzyzanowski (editors)
DISCOURSE AND TRANSFORMATION IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Roxy Harris
NEW ETHNICITIES AND LANGUAGE USE
Jane Jackson
INTERCULTURAL JOURNEYS
From Study to Residence Abroad
Máiréad Nic Craith
NARRATIVES OF PLACE, BELONGING AND LANGUAGE
Helen Kelly-Holmes and Gerlinde Mautner (editors)
LANGUAGE AND THE MARKET
Grit Liebscher and Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain
LANGUAGE, SPACE AND IDENTITY IN MIGRATION
Clare Mar-Molinero and Patrick Stevenson (editors)
LANGUAGE IDEOLOGIES, POLICIES AND PRACTICES
Language and the Future of Europe
Clare Mar-Molinero and Miranda Stewart (editors)
GLOBALIZATION AND LANGUAGE IN THE SPANISH-SPEAKING WORLD
Macro and Micro Perspectives
Ulrike Hanna Meinhof and Dariusz Galasinski
THE LANGUAGE OF BELONGING
Richard C. M. Mole (editor)
DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY IN EUROPEAN POLITICS
Leigh Oakes and Jane Warren
LANGUAGE, CITIZENSHIP AND IDENTITY IN QUEBEC
Mario Saraceni
THE RELOCATION OF ENGLISH
Christina Slade and Martina Mollering (editors)
FROM MIGRANT TO CITIZEN: TESTING LANGUAGE, TESTING CULTURE
Colin Williams
LINGUISTIC MINORITIES IN DEMOCRATIC CONTEXT
Colin Williams
MINORITY LANGUAGE PROMOTION, PROTECTION AND REGULATION
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For Katie. Fight on, my sister.
Jatarishun, kawsachun warmikuna!
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgements x
1 Introduction: Globalization, indigenous languages,
and the Runa Takiks 1
2 Globalized or glocalized? Transnational or transcultural?
Defining language practices in global spaces 15
3 Theorizing transcultural language practices 30
4 Gender and beliefs about language 47
5 Transcultural performances of gender 67
6 Transcultural performances of ethnicity 86
7 Transcultural performance and legitimacy:
Seven years later 108
8 Conclusions and implications for indigenous
and minority languages 126
Notes 139
Appendix 1: Participants and family relationship, by provenance 141
Appendix 2: Transcription conventions used in Chapters 5 to 7 143
Bibliography 145
Index 153
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List of Figures
1.1 Some of the Runa Takiks at work in 2014. Instruments
include guitar (electric and acoustic), electric bass, sikus,
and charango 4
1.2 The beta band in 2007 at a local festival. Note the two
veteran members with wind instruments in hand (quena
and sikus) and newer members accompanying on string
instruments (mandolin and charango) 8
2.1 Peer interaction in San Antonio, Ecuador (from Rindstedt, C.
& Aronsson, K. Growing up bilingual in a monolingual
community: The Quichua revitalization paradox. Language
in Society, 31, pp. 721–742. Copyright © 2002 Cambridge
University Press. Used with permission) 24
6.1 Allkurinchik at the crafts table 91
6.2 A map of Otavalo City. In the ‘Plaza de Ponchos’
conversation, Jerónimo and Gerardo described how the
Saturday market extends from the Plaza de Ponchos south
to the food market and north to the bus terminal 99
7.1 The main plaza in Peguche in 2007 (above) and 2014
(below). Although the church has been expanded, Marco’s
family’s restaurant to the right of the church remains
the same 109
7.2 Allkurinchik and Adela together in 2014 (left)
and apart in 2007 (right) 110
7.3 Domingo with the Runa Takiks in 2007 (left)
and at his wife’s papelería in 2014 (right) 111
7.4 Beatriz and Sara in 2007 (left) and 2014 (right) 112
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