Linguistic Natures: Method, Media, and Language Reclamation in the Ecuadorian Amazon

The psychoactive plant Salvia divinorum has long been used medicinally by Indigenous people from southern Mexico, the only place where it is endemic, and is now studied by pharmaceutical researchers. I analyze competing ways the two groups "make medicine" with salvia, attending simultaneously to material/embodied and semiotic/linguistic dimensions of those practices. I introduce two concepts - stripping and enrobing - to show that differences in how the groups interact with salvia have ethical and political consequences. Those repercussions matter because salvia is but one of many plants important to marginalized groups whose ties to them are threatened by international medical interests.

"Making Medicine" with Salvia divinorum: Competing Approaches and Their Implications.

Based on an ethnography of a language policy in the region of Apurimac in the Peruvian Andes, I analyze the boundaries that are constructed by a community of practice of Quechua “experts” in a cont...

Tactics of Intersubjectivity and Boundary Construction in Language Policy: An Andean Case

In this paper we provide a critical account of selected key linguistic and cultural revitalisation experiences in Mexico. For this aim, the project entitled Proyecto de Revitalizacion, Mantenimient...

Reviewing experiences in language (re)vitalisation: recent undertakings in the media and the arts

The chapter provides a panoramic overview of self-translation from and into Indigenous languages among contemporary Mexican writers, in which the link between self-translation and language maintenance is closely explored. These authors often consider their decision to write in or translate into their native language as part of a broader effort to preserve their cultural and linguistic heritage. Since the conditions of the publishing market indicate these writers’ works would not otherwise be published, this language choice necessary entails self-translation. The study examines the use of this practice among authors with different linguistic backgrounds, such as Zapotec poets Natalia Toledo Paz and Irma Pineda Santiago, and Maya-Yucatec poet Briceida Cuevas Cob. It also discusses how their bilingual works are translated into other languages and what role this process can play in preserving and revitalizing Indigenous languages.

Self-Translation in Contemporary Indigenous Literatures in Mexico

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