1st Edition
Engaging Native American Publics Linguistic Anthropology in a Collaborative Key
Introduction
1. Native American Languages and Linguistic Anthropology: From the Legacy of Salvage Anthropology to the Promise of Linguistic Self-Determination
Barbra A. Meek
Part I: Collaboration
2. There’s No Easy Way to Talk about Language Change or Language Loss: The Difficulties and Rewards of Linguistic Collaboration
Gus Palmer, Jr.
3. Recontextualizing Kumeyaay Oral Literature for the Twenty-First Century
Margaret Field
4. “You Shall Not Become This Kind of People”: Indigenous Political Argument in Maidu Linguistic Text Collections
M. Eleanor Nevins
5. To “We” (+inclusive) or Not to “We” (–inclusive): The CD-ROM Taitaduhaan (Our Language) and Western Mono Future Publics
Paul V. Kroskrity
Part II: Circulation
6. Future Imperfect: Advocacy, Rhetoric, and Public Anxiety over Maliseet Language Life and Death
Bernard C. Perley
7. Perfecting Publics: Future Audiences and the Aesthetics of Refinement
Erin Debenport
Part III: Scaling Publics
8. “I Don’t Write Navajo Poetry, I Just Speak the Poetry in Navajo”: Ethical Listeners, Poetic Communion, and Imagined Future Publics of Navajo Poetry
Anthony K. Webster
9. Reflections on Navajo Publics, “New” Media, and Documentary Futures
Leighton Peterson
10. Labelling Knowledge: The Semiotics of Immaterial Cultural Property and the Production of New Indigenous Publics
Jane Anderson, Hannah McElgunn, and Justin Richland
Biography
Paul V. Kroskrity is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, United States. He served as Chair of the Interdepartmental Program in American Indian Studies and is a past President of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.
Barbra A. Meek is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Michigan, United States.
