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Lessons from Fort Apache
2024
Overview
Lessons from Fort Apache is an ethnography of Indigenous
language dynamics on the Fort Apache reservation in Arizona with
North American and global implications concerning language
endangerment. Moving beyond a narrow focus on linguistic
documentation, M. Eleanor Nevins examines how the linguistics and
cultural identities of Indigenous populations are attributed with
meaning against other sociocultural concerns and interests. While
affirming the value of language documentation and maintenance,
Nevins also provides a much-needed appraisal of the potential
conflicts in authority claims and language practices between
community members and the educators and scholars who research their
linguistic heritage. Nevins argues that the debates surrounding the
revitalization of Indigenous languages need broadening to include
larger questions of social mediation, shifting cultural identities,
and the politics intrinsic to the relationship between Indigenous
community members and university-accredited experts such as
language researchers and educators. This engaging ethnography
examines these questions and investigates the language dynamics of
the Fort Apache Reservation, including the unintended challenges
that standardized textual models sometimes pose to local interests.
Nevins reveals the community's historical and contemporary concerns
for language documentation, maintenance, and revitalization.
Lessons from Fort Apache demonstrates the need for
language maintenance programs and for flexibility in finding
politically sustainable forms of collaboration and exchange between
researchers, teachers, and those community members who base their
claims to an Indigenous language in alternate terms.
Publisher
Nebraska,University of Nebraska Press
Subject
ISBN
9781496231468, 1496231465, 9781496237675, 1496237676
