Transcultural Performance: Negotiating Globalized Indigenous Identities by Miche

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Featuring interviews, conversations and observations from a multi-sited ethnography of Ecuadorean musicians and their families, this book offers an innovative response to previous analyses of globalization and indigenous languages, demonstrating how transcultural practices can enhance the use and maintenance of indigenous and minority languages.

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Featuring interviews, conversations and observations from a multi-sited ethnography of Ecuadorean musicians and their families, this book offers an innovative response to previous analyses of globalization and indigenous languages, demonstrating how transcultural practices can enhance the use and maintenance of indigenous and minority languages.

Author Biography

Michele Back is an Assistant Professor of World Languages Education at the University of Connecticut, USA. Her research examines how multilingual individuals negotiate and construct identity in transnational and online contexts. She has published articles in The Modern Language Journal, Language Learning and Foreign Language Annals.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Globalization, Indigenous Languages, and the Runa Takiks 2. Globalized or Glocalized? Transnational or Transcultural? Defining Language Practices in Global Spaces 3. Theorizing Transcultural Language Practices 4. Gender and Beliefs about Language 5. Transcultural Performances of Gender 6. Transcultural Performances of Ethnicity 7. Transcultural Performance and Legitimacy: Seven Years Later 8. Conclusions and Implications for Indigenous and Minority Languages

Long Description

Transcultural Performance draws upon a multi-sited ethnography of Ecuadorean folkloric musicians and their families to illustrate how these individuals negotiate languages, gender and ethnicity at home and abroad. Beginning with a cohesive and critical review of globalization and identity theories, the book offers an important interdisciplinary response to work on language, identity and globalization. With detailed discourse analyses of gender, ethnicity, and language, the chapters offer a valuable counterpoint to more traditional analyses of the impact of multilingualism on indigenous languages, which are frequently negative in their assessment of the future of these languages. Through an examination of beliefs and practices, this book demonstrates both the persistent role of essentialist ideologies in beliefs about language, as well as how transcultural practices can enhance the use and maintenance of minority and indigenous languages.

Details ISBN1137412429 Author Michele Back Year 2015 ISBN-10 1137412429 ISBN-13 9781137412423 Format Hardcover Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Language English Media Book Publication Date 2015-05-28 Short Title TRANSCULTURAL PERFORMANCE 2015 Edition Description 2015 Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Negotiating Globalized Indigenous Identities Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 160 Illustrations XI, 160 p. UK Release Date 2015-05-28 AU Release Date 2015-05-28 NZ Release Date 2015-05-28 Illustrator Natsuko Porcino Edited by Richard G. Olmstead Birth 1974 Death 1908 Affiliation Massachusetts Institute of Technology Position journalist Qualifications S. J. Series Language and Globalization Alternative 9781349489572 DEWEY 306.4408878 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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