PART I. AN INTERREGIONAL SOCIETY -- 1. People and Languages on the Coffee Frontier -- 2. Language and History at an Andean-Amazonian Crossroads -- 3. A Community Forms -- PART II. SPEAKING ON THE FRONTIER -- 4. Speaking as a Farmer -- 5. Speaking as a Comunero -- 6. Speaking About the Land -- Conclusion: "The Air Was Totally Still"
Summary
"This ethnography takes us to remote Amazonian villages, dusty frontier towns, roadside bargaining sessions, and coffee traders' homes to offer a new view of settlement frontiers as they are negotiated in linguistic interactions and social relationships. The book brings together a fine-grained analysis of multilingualism with urgent issues in Latin America today. It is a timely on-the-ground perspective on the agricultural colonization of the Amazon, which has triggered an environmental emergency threatening the future of the planet"-- Provided by publisher
