Public Indigeneity, Language Revitalization, and Intercultural Planning in a Native Amazonian Beauty Pageant

Wroblewski, Michael

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“…Much of the work of this past year examined the practices that make possible a sense of shared qualities across collective subjects. From issues of citizenship contorted by contestations around ethnicity, immigration, and displacement (Byrd 2014;Oka 2014;Shneiderman 2014;Thiranagama 2014) and revised understandings of relatedness across borders, through ancestral homes, and via fictive kin terms (Bovensiepen 2014;Cole 2014a;Nakassis 2014) to renegotiations of race and indigenous recognition within settler colonial contexts (Ives 2014a; Jacobsen-Bia 2014; Merlan 2014;Sturm 2014;Wroblewski 2014) and science as authority in ethnic belonging (Tamarkin 2014), as well as practice through which reflexive identity might be assembled (Droney 2014), articles this past year show the myriad ways a sense of communal immediacy might be built, be contested, or fail. Here too of note is a Current Anthropology special issue on Christianity, showcasing a variety of situations in which Christianity becomes the idiom through which immediacy across groups is expressed and contested (Robbins 2014).…”

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The Ends of Anthropology: 2014 in U.S. Sociocultural Anthropology

Hankins

2015

American Anthropologist

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In this essay, I trace the operations of a moral optimism and a skepticism that lie, uneasily, at the foundation of sociocultural anthropology. As other authors of year-in-review pieces have noted, anthropology is motivated by a moral optimism pointing toward the possibilities of an ethically and politically better life. Equally as fundamental, I argue, is a rigorous skepticism interrogating the shifting conditions that give life to anthropology's possibility. Here, I follow the productive tension between these two stances through the sociocultural anthropology of 2014, loosely grouping that work under the rubrics of "ends," "immediacy," "ecology," and "refusal." Throughout, I make a push for increased attention to our ethic of skepticism as means of tempering the discipline's moral optimism. [optimism, skepticism, immediacy, connection, year in review, sociocultural anthropology] RESUMENEn este ensayo, delineo las operaciones de un optimismo moral y un escepticismo que yacen, incómodamente, en la fundación de la antropología sociocultural. Como otros autores de los artyículos del año en revisión lo han notado, la antropología está motivada por un optimismo moral señalando hacia las posibilidades de una vidaética y políticamente mejor. Igualmente fundamental, argumento, es un escepticismo riguroso interrogando las condiciones cambiantes que dan vida a la posibilidad de la antropología. Aquí, sigo la tensión productiva entre estas dos posiciones a través de la antropología cultural del 2014, agrupando en líneas generales ese trabajo bajo las rúbricas de "fines", "inmediatez", "ecología", y "rechazo". A lo largo, presiono por una atención creciente a nuestraética de escepticismo, como un medio de temperar el optimismo moral de la disciplina. [optimismo, escepticismo, inmediatez, conexión, año en revisión, antropología sociocultural] ON SKEPTICISM AND OPTIMISMIn this essay, I review work in U.S. sociocultural anthropology from 2014. At the same time, I argue for attention to a skepticism that lies at the heart of our discipline, frequently overshadowed by the equally longstanding moral optimism that fuels our discipline's forward tilt. Michel de Montaigne begins his 16th-century essay "On the Cannibals" by questioning the chauvinistic tendency for anyone to call "barbarous anything he is not accustomed to" (1991:231). He argues, in counterpoint, for seeing the barbarism of the "we": "Those 'savages' are only wild in the sense that we call fruits wild when they are produced by Nature in her ordinary course: whereas it is fruit we

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The Ends of Anthropology: 2014 in U.S. Sociocultural Anthropology

Hankins

2015

American Anthropologist

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“…Standardized (“Unified”) Kichwa is a technical and lexically “pure” register that few people who speak Kichwa can produce (Floyd 2004; Wroblewski 2012). Though research on Peruvian and Bolivian Quechua(s) often presupposes the mutual intelligibility of Ecuadorian varieties of Kichwa, there is significant variation, especially between Andean and Amazonian varieties that can challenge intelligibility (Uzendoski 2008; Wroblewski 2014). Moreover, most people who speak Kichwa varieties on a daily basis borrow words from Spanish, which is not allowed in standardized Kichwa.…”

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What’s the Linguistic Variety of Audit Culture? Administering an Indigenous Language Proficiency Exam in Ecuador’s Intercultural Bilingual Education

Limerick

2020

Anthropology & Edu Quarterly

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In Ecuador directors of Indigenous education administer a Kichwa proficiency exam as a requirement for employment. This article considers promises and challenges of the exam, such as how standardized language ideologies manifest in it, and what it says about how institutional knowledge is classed, racialized, and urbanized. Furthermore, though research often describes audit culture as hegemonic, almost everyone associated with the intercultural bilingual school system, including examiners, expressed concerns, yielding a pathway to alter or contest such initiatives.

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“…Furthermore, though Ecuador offers a remarkable example of minoritizedlanguage recognition from a global perspective, the process has not promoted all Kichwa varieties and identities, allowing a closer look at the reconfiguring of Indigeneity in state institutions. Unified Kichwa, a variety that intellectuals and planners have promoted for pan-Andean unity and activism, is widely disliked by Kichwa-speakers in Ecuador (Wroblewski 2012). Based on a variety of Kichwa from the province of Imbabura, home to the well-known and comparatively elite merchants of Otavalo, Unified Kichwa functions to maintain lexical purity through avoiding the use of Spanish loanwords.…”

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Attaining Multicultural Citizenship through Indigenous‐Language Instruction: Successful Kichwa Misfires and the Modeling of Modernist Language Ideologies in Ecuador

Limerick

2018

J Linguistic Anthropol

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In recent years, state policymakers have responded to the demands of Indigenous peoples with cultural and linguistic recognition, and such recognition has influenced how traditionally marginalized peoples self‐identify. This article examines how teachers in an intercultural bilingual school in Quito, Ecuador, coach students to speak successively in Spanish and Kichwa in greetings and songs as they model languages as discrete, commensurate, and orderly. Through semiotic processes of diagrammaticity, multilingual ways of speaking align with nonlinguistic markers, such as regional forms of dress, to illustrate a sanctioned form of Indigeneity as the identities of the students. Drawing on the concept of “misfire,” the article shows how, in the process, the students speak “incorrectly” in Kichwa but successfully illustrate their citizenship identities for non‐Kichwa‐speakers. Such actions foreground sanctioned traits, helping students to pass through public spaces and gain funding for intercultural bilingual education. State recognition thus paradoxically orients use of Indigenous languages towards those who do not understand them.

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Public Indigeneity, Language Revitalization, and Intercultural Planning in a Native Amazonian Beauty Pageant

Cited by 26 publications

References 47 publications

The Ends of Anthropology: 2014 in U.S. Sociocultural Anthropology

The Ends of Anthropology: 2014 in U.S. Sociocultural Anthropology

What’s the Linguistic Variety of Audit Culture? Administering an Indigenous Language Proficiency Exam in Ecuador’s Intercultural Bilingual Education

Attaining Multicultural Citizenship through Indigenous‐Language Instruction: Successful Kichwa Misfires and the Modeling of Modernist Language Ideologies in Ecuador

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