An examination of the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon. Sarah Shulist concentrates on how debates, discussions, and practices aimed at...
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An examination of the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon. Sarah Shulist concentrates on how debates, discussions, and practices aimed at providing support for the Indigenous languages of the region shed light on both global issues of language revitalization and on the meaning of Indigeneity in contemporary Brazil Playing Indian: the politics of language, identity, and culture in urban Amazonia -- City of transformation: ethnography and history of a multilingual Amazon town -- Language policy on paper and in practice -- Education in the city: defining urban indigeneity -- Making an indigenous public: a perspective from the non-official languages -- Revising expectations: reflections on the research process -- Conclusions: language revitalization and urban indigeneity
