Nahuatl Nations
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-774616-5 (ISBN)
Based on long-term fieldwork in several Nahuatl speaking communities in Central Mexico, Hansen uses a combination of methods from ethnohistory, sociolinguistics, anthropology and ethnography to study the political importance of Nahuatl in different periods and places, and for different persons. He suggests that the complicated political relations between State, Nation and Nahua communities can be understood through the concept of 'semiotic sovereignty', which refers to a community's ability to manage its own semiotic resources, including its own language, and the cultural practices that constitute it as a political community. He argues that Indigenous languages are likely to remain vital as long as they used as languages of political community, and they also protect the community's sovereignty by functioning as a barrier that restricts access to the participation for outsiders. Semiotic sovereignty therefore becomes a key concept for understanding how Indigenous communities can maintain both their political and linguistic vitality. While the Mexican Nation seeks to expropriate Indigenous semiotic resources in order to improve its brand on an international marketplace, Indigenous communities may employ them in resistance to state domination.
Magnus Pharao Hansen is a linguistic anthropologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen, with a Ph.D. in Linguistic Anthropology from Brown University. He studies the social, historical and geographical variation of Nahuatl, and its cultural contexts and political implications, as well as the linguistic histories of other Indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1. Introduction: Nahuatl Revitalization in the Mexican Nation
1b. Interlude: On Transcription
2. From Indian Republics to Covert Publics: Colony to Nation
3. Nahuatl is very fashionable now: Nation Branding and Cultural Expropriation
4. Language, Autonomy and Indigenous Politics in Hueyapan, Morelos
5. Land, Language, and Higher Learning in the Zongolica Highlands
6. Nahuatl Across Borders: Mexican Transnationalism in the United States
7. Conclusions: The Current State of Nahuatl
Works Cited
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.07.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Language |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 481 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-774616-0 / 0197746160 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-774616-5 / 9780197746165 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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