Lessons from Fort Apache Beyond Language Endangerment and Maintenance 1st Edition by M. Eleanor Nevins, Mona Eleando, Cline Griggs – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 978-1496231468, 1496231465
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ISBN 10: 1496231465
ISBN 13: 978-1496231468
Author: M. Eleanor Nevins, Mona Eleando, Cline Griggs
Lessons from Fort Apache is an ethnography of Indigenous language dynamics on the Fort Apache reservation in Arizona with North American and global implications concerning language endangerment. Moving beyond a narrow focus on linguistic documentation, M. Eleanor Nevins examines how the linguistics and cultural identities of Indigenous populations are attributed with meaning against other sociocultural concerns and interests. While affirming the value of language documentation and maintenance, Nevins also provides a much-needed appraisal of the potential conflicts in authority claims and language practices between community members and the educators and scholars who research their linguistic heritage.
Nevins argues that the debates surrounding the revitalization of Indigenous languages need broadening to include larger questions of social mediation, shifting cultural identities, and the politics intrinsic to the relationship between Indigenous community members and university-accredited experts such as language researchers and educators. This engaging ethnography examines these questions and investigates the language dynamics of the Fort Apache Reservation, including the unintended challenges that standardized textual models sometimes pose to local interests. Nevins reveals the community’s historical and contemporary concerns for language documentation, maintenance, and revitalization.
Lessons from Fort Apache demonstrates the need for language maintenance programs and for flexibility in finding politically sustainable forms of collaboration and exchange between researchers, teachers, and those community members who base their claims to an Indigenous language in alternate terms.
Table of contents:
CHAPTER 1
Introduction
CHAPTER 2
Indigenous Languages and the Mediation of Communities
CHAPTER 3
Learning to Listen: Coming to Terms with Conflicting Meanings of Language Loss
CHAPTER 4
They Live in Lonesome Dove: English in Indigenous Places
CHAPTER 5
Stories in the Moment of Encounter: Documentation Boundary Work
CHAPTER 6
What No Coyote Story Means: The Borderland Genre of Traditional Storytelling
CHAPTER 7
“Some ‘No No’ and Some ‘Yes’”: Silence, Agency, and Traditionalist Words
CHAPTER 8
Sustainability: Possible Socialities of Documentation and Maintenance
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