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1 online resource (220 pages) |
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500 Tips |
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500 Tips
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Engaging Native American Publics- Front Cover; Engaging Native American Publics; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Native American languages and linguistic anthropology: from the legacy of salvage anthropology to the promise of linguistic self-determination; Collaborative linguistic anthropology; Organization of the book; "Deep" collaboration; Circulation; Scaling publics; Engaging the future; Notes; References; PART I: Collaboration |
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Chapter 2: There's no easy way to talk about language change or language loss: the difficulties and rewards of linguistic collaborationWorking in close quarters together; Notes; References; Chapter 3: Recontextualizing Kumeyaay oral literature for the twenty-first century; Other historical sources; Previous misconceptions; Kumeyaay oral tradition: creation; The Heavenly Snake; Footsteps in the rocks; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 4: "You shall not become this kind of people": Indigenous political argument in Maidu linguistic text collections; Sketch of a text trajectory |
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Tom Young (Hanc'ibyjim) and Roland Dixon at the boundary of Indigenous and settler publicsFrom ethnographic encounter to object of ethno-linguistic science; From object of science to primordial Native American literature; From literary paperback to elite visual and literary art for limited circulation; Fourth conversion to Indigenous projects (relevance of precision in the human sciences); Colonial linguistics, text collections and decolonization; Notes; References |
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Chapter 5: To "we" (+inclusive) or not to "we" ( -inclusive): the CD-ROM Taitaduhaan (our language) and Western Mono future publicsThe Western Mono communities of Central California; Taitaduhaan: Western Mono ways of speaking (a CD-ROM); Emergent publics: a Mono public and multiple publics; Conclusions; Notes; References; PART II: Circulation; Chapter 6: Future imperfect: advocacy, rhetoric, and public anxiety over Maliseet language life and death; Public anxiety and Maliseet language death; Imaginaries of the future; Ethnographic interventions: imagining Maliseet futures |
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Conclusion: future imperfectNotes; References; Chapter 7: Perfecting publics: future audiences and the aesthetics of refinement; Pueblo secrecy and San Ramón Keiwa literacy; Pueblo publics: current and imagined audiences; Hopeful nostalgia and future Indigenous publics; The politics of pueblo public and private spheres; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; PART III: Scaling publics; Chapter 8: "I don't write Navajo poetry, I just speak the poetry in Navajo": ethical listeners, poetic communion, and the imagined future publics of Navajo poetry |
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Imagining a modern Navajo: a brief history of Navajo literacy |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Meek, Barbra A
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Nevins, M. Eleanor
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| ISBN |
9781317361275 |
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131736127X |
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