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

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Details ISBN1349489573 Language English ISBN-10 1349489573 ISBN-13 9781349489572 Format Paperback Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Short Title TRANSCULTURAL PERFORMANCE 2015 Media Book DEWEY 306.44 Author Michele Back Pages 160 Edition 1st Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Negotiating Globalized Indigenous Identities Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom Year 2015 Publication Date 2015-01-01 UK Release Date 2015-01-01 AU Release Date 2015-01-01 NZ Release Date 2015-01-01 Illustrations XI, 160 p. Edition Description 1st ed. 2015 Series Language and Globalization Alternative 9781137412423 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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