Lessons from Fort Apache

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This incisive ethnographic analysis of indigenous language documentation, maintenance, and revitalization focuses on linguistic heritage issues on the Native American reservation at Fort Apache and explores the broader social, political and religious influences on changing language practices in indigenous communities. * Offers a focused ethnographic analysis of an indigenous community that also explores global issues of language endangerment and maintenance and their socio-historical contexts * Addresses the complexities and conflicts in language documentation and revitalization programs, and how they articulate with localized discourse genres, education practices, religious beliefs, and politics * Examines differing evaluations of language loss, and maintenance, among members of affected communities, and their creative responses to challenges posed by encompassing socio-cultural regimes, including university accredited language experts * Provides an ethnographic analysis of speech in indigenous communities that moves beyond narrowly conceived language documentation to consider changing linguistic and social identities

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M. Eleanor Nevins

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Anthropologie Anthropologie / Nordamerika Anthropology Linguistic Anthropology Linguistik Linguistische Anthropologie North American Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology Soziale u. kulturelle Anthropologie

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"Lessons From Fort Apache: Beyond Language Endangermentand Maintenance is an important contribution to the literatureon language documentation and maintenance, as well as indigenouslanguage revitalization." (American Indian Culture &Research Journal, 19 November 2014) "Fort Apache offers a useful nuance to understanding thedynamics of heritage, its meanings, and the mediation betweenpeople and their culture. While the Apache language and discursiveinventions are the primary focus of Nevins's work, builtheritage specialists will find this book useful in helping tounderstand the relationship between the expert and the communityand how this dynamic both impairs and facilitates our understandingof intangible heritage and its sustainableconservation." (Preservation, Education &Research, 2013) "This realistic, thoughtful study should be regarded asobligatory reading for any linguist genuinely concerned withendangered language maintenance and revitalization. SummingUp: Essential. All levels/libraries." (Choice, 1 December2013) "In Lessons from Fort Apache, Eleanor Nevinsprovides an eye-opening map of the ideologically complex, oftendensely tangled contact zone that language maintenance projectsinevitably inhabit and charts in eloquent, persuasive terms apolitically symmetrical path toward languagesustainability." Richard Bauman, Indiana University, Bloomington "In Lessons from Fort Apache, Nevins providesvividly instructive portrayals of the ideological struggles oflanguage revitalization efforts. She teaches us to attain newunderstandings of the hidden complexity of these important intra-and intercultural projects." Paul V. Kroskrity, University of California, Los Angeles
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