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Verbal Art (verbal + art)
Selected AbstractsTranslating Native Latin American Verbal Art: Ethnopoetics and Ethnography of SpeakingAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 3 2002Michael A. Uzendoski Translating Native Latin American Verbal Art: Ethnopoetics and Ethnography of Speaking. Kay Sammons and Joel Sherzer. eds. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. 309 pp. [source] Indeterminacy and history in Britton Goode's Western Apache placenames: ambiguous identity on the San Carlos Apache reservationAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 2 2001David Samuels In this article, I explore the inherent ambiguity of cultural identities through a discussion of placenames around the San Carlos Apache reservation in southeastern Arizona. The Western Apache residents of San Carlos live in a colonized landscape. Residents maintain an attachment to Apache history and cultural sovereignty, not only by preserving and maintaining placenames in the Western Apache language, but through the performance arenas of speech play, verbal art, and code-switching puns. In this article, I concentrate on the placenames compiled by Britton Goode (1911,81), a Western Apache linguist and historian. These language practices problematize the question of identity by reading culture into and through the contingencies of everyday experience, [placenames, verbal art, identity, Western Apache, language and culture] [source] The Arts Of Deception: Verbal Performances By The Ra真te Of NepalTHE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, Issue 2 2002Jana Fortier A small population of Tibeto-Burman-speaking hunter-gatherers, the Ra真te avoid intercultural communication with surrounding Nepa疹i-speaking agriculturalists except during barter sessions. During these intercultural interactions, Ra真te often charm their trading partners with Nepa疹i verbal art, including recitation of rhymes, songs, and blessings. In this article I suggest that Ra真te perform verbal art in order to draw attention away from their radically different lifestyle and as a way of resisting the hegemonic process of Hinduization. The article details Ra真te oral performance as a strategy of verbal indirection, focusing on the context and framing of rhyming proverbs as a means of camouflaging Ra真te people's actual cultural practices. ba留arko sa皰et.o Ra真teko dha痂i la疳, kheti cha疳na pa眩i cha疳na, ke kha疸u ha痂i la疳? ,The monkey's thigh is the shaman's meat, Having no farmland, what shall we eat?' Gogane Ra真te [source] Verbal Artistry: A Case for EducationANTHROPOLOGY & EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Issue 4 2009Richard B. Henne This article expands our understanding of how language-minoritized children's communicative competence interrelates with schooling. It features a verbal performance by a young Native American girl. A case is made for greater empirical specification of the real extent of children's non-school-sanctioned communicative competence. The case disrupts Euro-Western ideologies of language and corresponding instructional policies and practices that pervade U.S. schooling. It also offers productive ways of reframing and reforming language loss in language contact situations.,[ethnography of communication, verbal art, language ideologies, language policy and planning, Indigenous language education, Lakota] [source] |