Paja Faudree
Biographic Data
| ID | 112056 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paja Faudree |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paja |
| FAMILY NAME | Faudree |
| SIGNATURE | FAUDREE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5802-7391 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
"Making Medicine" withSalvia divinorum: Competing Approaches and Their Implications
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 …
Language and Social Justice
Between Aspiration and Apathy: Shifting Scale and the “Worlding” of Indigenous Day of the Dead Music
This article examines Mazatec Day of the Dead music, a popular musical form featuring lyrics in the indigenous Mexican language Mazatec, which has become popular online and off, with some practitioners even dreaming of global prominence. I use the tension between musical aspirations and apathy to illuminate how the creation of “world musics” and other popular forms depends on unstable recalibrations of scale, including “shrinking” tendencies when…
Communicating Bodies
Reading the Requerimiento Performatively: Speech Acts and the Conquest of the New World
Finally, I thank colleagues who commented on this article as I was preparing it, including Luis Castro Leiva, Tom Cummins, Nancy Farriss, Susan Gal, Rob Hamrick, Webb Keane, John Lucy, Cathy Lutz, Matthew Restall, Michael Silverstein, Dan Suslak, and Karin Zitzewitz. The article is immeasurably better for their feedback and guidance, though I alone am to blame for any remaining 'infelicities.'ORCIDPaja Faudree http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5802-7391…
Why X doesn't always mark the spot: Contested authenticity in Mexican indigenous language politics
In this article, I consider competing notions of "alphabetic authenticity" and indigenous authorship among Mexican indigenous authors and activists. Orthographies form a special focus, as choices about them entail envisioning particular kinds of texts and, hence, types of readers. I focus on the divergent strategies - all fundamentally semiotic - that people advocate in developing "authentic indigenous writing" and in using various meta-semiotic …
Introduction: "Diversity Talk" and Its Others
Singing for the dead, on and off line: Diversity, migration, and scale in Mexican Muertos music
Made in Translation: Revisiting the Chontal Maya Account of the Conquest
In this article, I argue for placing the study of translators and translation processes more squarely at the center of ethnohistoric research. I focus on two texts well known to scholars: a seventeenth-century text written in Chontal Maya and its contemporary translation into Spanish. I discuss how translation practices contributed to the creation of the Chontal text and then analyze the systematic discrepancies between it and the contemporary Sp…
What is an Indigenous Author: Minority Authorship and the Politics of Voice in Mexico
This article examines the politics of voice in Mexican indigenous authorship for the insights it might offer anthropological theory. It takes up the multiple barriers of access indigenous authors face in participating in authorship as a general project, noting the importance of authorship as a point of entry into such universal projects as citizenship, modernity, human rights, democracy, and intellectual property rights. That resonance places the…
Tales from the Land of Magic Plants: Textual Ideologies and Fetishes of Indigeneity in Mexico's Sierra Mazateca
Anthropology and other disciplines are engaged in an extended conversation about how to understand the dynamics of global interconnection. One dominant approach stresses political economies of global markets, exploring how commodity chains structure social relations and vice versa. I propose instead an emphasis on how semiotic mediation, specifically textual representation, shapes the circulation of material goods and surrounding social relations…
The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology
The field of linguistic anthropology looks at human uniqueness and diversity through the lens of language, our species' special combination of art and instinct. Human language both shapes, and is shaped by, our minds, societies, and cultural worlds. This state-of-the-field survey covers a wide range of topics, approaches and theories, such as the nature and function of language systems, the relationship between language and social interaction, an…
The annual Day of the Dead song contest: Musical-Linguistic Ideology and Practice, Piratability, and the Challenge of Scale
Building on research theorizing scale, this article proposes augmentations to existing frameworks that will help illuminate how localities are linked to 'stranger collectives' like nations, ethnicities, and global religious 'communities'. In this case of ethnic revival from Mexico's Sierra Mazateca, people use new vernacular literacy practices tied to local musical performances as a way of 'customizing' modular forms deployed by national and glob…
Singing for the Dead: The Politics of Indigenous Revival in Mexico
Leaving the pueblo : the politics of indigenous revival -- From revolution to renaissance : a political geography of "deep Mexico" -- Revival in the "land of the magic mushroom": a recent history of ethnic relations in the Mazatec Sierra -- Singing for the spirits: the annual Day of the Dead song contest -- Scenes from a nativist reformation : the Mazatec indigenous church -- Meeting at the family crypt : social faultlines and the fragility of co…
Music, Language, and Texts: Sound and Semiotic Ethnography
This review surveys recent research on language-music: the unified expressive field comprising sounded and textual signs whose segmentation into “language” and “music” is culturally constructed. I argue that approaching language-music semiotically will promote—alongside the discipline's emergent “auditory turn”—greater holism in anthropological practice if coupled to the joint effort of attending to textuality while decentering its primacy. I dis…
How to Say Things with Wars: Performativity and Discursive Rupture in theRequerimientoof the Spanish Conquest
Though linguistic anthropologists have long surpassed Austin's initial formulation, the performativity concept remains of enduring interest for its utility in exploring how language constitutes social action. I build on those conversations by considering the concept's applicability to a key document used in the conquest of theAmericas, an event involving one of the greatest discursive divides in human history. After examining the text's internal …
Linguistic Anthropology in 2008: An Election-Cycle Guide
Loosely following the structure of the U.S. election cycle, I identify some of the more important institutions and events that have recently served as venues for field-building scholarly practices and processes in linguistic anthropology. I examine various trends and concerns animating recent publications on language and social life. I discuss the ongoing impact on the field of recent major works that attempt to codify methodological and theoreti…
Singing for the Dead: The Politics of Indigenous Revival in Mexico
Leaving the pueblo : the politics of indigenous revival -- From revolution to renaissance : a political geography of "deep Mexico" -- Revival in the "land of the magic mushroom": a recent history of ethnic relations in the Mazatec Sierra -- Singing for the spirits: the annual Day of the Dead song contest -- Scenes from a nativist reformation : the Mazatec indigenous church -- Meeting at the family crypt : social faultlines and the fragility of co…
How to Say Things with Wars: Performativity and Discursive Rupture in theRequerimientoof the Spanish Conquest
Though linguistic anthropologists have long surpassed Austin's initial formulation, the performativity concept remains of enduring interest for its utility in exploring how language constitutes social action. I build on those conversations by considering the concept's applicability to a key document used in the conquest of theAmericas, an event involving one of the greatest discursive divides in human history. After examining the text's internal …
Singing for the dead, on and off line: Diversity, migration, and scale in Mexican Muertos music
The annual Day of the Dead song contest: Musical-Linguistic Ideology and Practice, Piratability, and the Challenge of Scale
Building on research theorizing scale, this article proposes augmentations to existing frameworks that will help illuminate how localities are linked to 'stranger collectives' like nations, ethnicities, and global religious 'communities'. In this case of ethnic revival from Mexico's Sierra Mazateca, people use new vernacular literacy practices tied to local musical performances as a way of 'customizing' modular forms deployed by national and glob…
Linguistic Anthropology in 2008: An Election-Cycle Guide
Loosely following the structure of the U.S. election cycle, I identify some of the more important institutions and events that have recently served as venues for field-building scholarly practices and processes in linguistic anthropology. I examine various trends and concerns animating recent publications on language and social life. I discuss the ongoing impact on the field of recent major works that attempt to codify methodological and theoreti…
Tales from the Land of Magic Plants: Textual Ideologies and Fetishes of Indigeneity in Mexico's Sierra Mazateca
Anthropology and other disciplines are engaged in an extended conversation about how to understand the dynamics of global interconnection. One dominant approach stresses political economies of global markets, exploring how commodity chains structure social relations and vice versa. I propose instead an emphasis on how semiotic mediation, specifically textual representation, shapes the circulation of material goods and surrounding social relations…
Made in Translation: Revisiting the Chontal Maya Account of the Conquest
In this article, I argue for placing the study of translators and translation processes more squarely at the center of ethnohistoric research. I focus on two texts well known to scholars: a seventeenth-century text written in Chontal Maya and its contemporary translation into Spanish. I discuss how translation practices contributed to the creation of the Chontal text and then analyze the systematic discrepancies between it and the contemporary Sp…
Communicating Bodies
Why X doesn't always mark the spot: Contested authenticity in Mexican indigenous language politics
In this article, I consider competing notions of "alphabetic authenticity" and indigenous authorship among Mexican indigenous authors and activists. Orthographies form a special focus, as choices about them entail envisioning particular kinds of texts and, hence, types of readers. I focus on the divergent strategies - all fundamentally semiotic - that people advocate in developing "authentic indigenous writing" and in using various meta-semiotic …
Introduction: "Diversity Talk" and Its Others
"Making Medicine" withSalvia divinorum: Competing Approaches and Their Implications
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 …
What is an Indigenous Author: Minority Authorship and the Politics of Voice in Mexico
This article examines the politics of voice in Mexican indigenous authorship for the insights it might offer anthropological theory. It takes up the multiple barriers of access indigenous authors face in participating in authorship as a general project, noting the importance of authorship as a point of entry into such universal projects as citizenship, modernity, human rights, democracy, and intellectual property rights. That resonance places the…
Language and Social Justice
Reading the Requerimiento Performatively: Speech Acts and the Conquest of the New World
Finally, I thank colleagues who commented on this article as I was preparing it, including Luis Castro Leiva, Tom Cummins, Nancy Farriss, Susan Gal, Rob Hamrick, Webb Keane, John Lucy, Cathy Lutz, Matthew Restall, Michael Silverstein, Dan Suslak, and Karin Zitzewitz. The article is immeasurably better for their feedback and guidance, though I alone am to blame for any remaining 'infelicities.'ORCIDPaja Faudree http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5802-7391…
Linguistic Anthropology in 2008: An Election-Cycle Guide
Loosely following the structure of the U.S. election cycle, I identify some of the more important institutions and events that have recently served as venues for field-building scholarly practices and processes in linguistic anthropology. I examine various trends and concerns animating recent publications on language and social life. I discuss the ongoing impact on the field of recent major works that attempt to codify methodological and theoreti…
Music, Language, and Texts: Sound and Semiotic Ethnography
This review surveys recent research on language-music: the unified expressive field comprising sounded and textual signs whose segmentation into “language” and “music” is culturally constructed. I argue that approaching language-music semiotically will promote—alongside the discipline's emergent “auditory turn”—greater holism in anthropological practice if coupled to the joint effort of attending to textuality while decentering its primacy. I dis…
How to Say Things with Wars: Performativity and Discursive Rupture in theRequerimientoof the Spanish Conquest
Though linguistic anthropologists have long surpassed Austin's initial formulation, the performativity concept remains of enduring interest for its utility in exploring how language constitutes social action. I build on those conversations by considering the concept's applicability to a key document used in the conquest of theAmericas, an event involving one of the greatest discursive divides in human history. After examining the text's internal …
Singing for the Dead: The Politics of Indigenous Revival in Mexico
Leaving the pueblo : the politics of indigenous revival -- From revolution to renaissance : a political geography of "deep Mexico" -- Revival in the "land of the magic mushroom": a recent history of ethnic relations in the Mazatec Sierra -- Singing for the spirits: the annual Day of the Dead song contest -- Scenes from a nativist reformation : the Mazatec indigenous church -- Meeting at the family crypt : social faultlines and the fragility of co…
The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology
The field of linguistic anthropology looks at human uniqueness and diversity through the lens of language, our species' special combination of art and instinct. Human language both shapes, and is shaped by, our minds, societies, and cultural worlds. This state-of-the-field survey covers a wide range of topics, approaches and theories, such as the nature and function of language systems, the relationship between language and social interaction, an…
The annual Day of the Dead song contest: Musical-Linguistic Ideology and Practice, Piratability, and the Challenge of Scale
Building on research theorizing scale, this article proposes augmentations to existing frameworks that will help illuminate how localities are linked to 'stranger collectives' like nations, ethnicities, and global religious 'communities'. In this case of ethnic revival from Mexico's Sierra Mazateca, people use new vernacular literacy practices tied to local musical performances as a way of 'customizing' modular forms deployed by national and glob…
Reading the Requerimiento Performatively: Speech Acts and the Conquest of the New World
Finally, I thank colleagues who commented on this article as I was preparing it, including Luis Castro Leiva, Tom Cummins, Nancy Farriss, Susan Gal, Rob Hamrick, Webb Keane, John Lucy, Cathy Lutz, Matthew Restall, Michael Silverstein, Dan Suslak, and Karin Zitzewitz. The article is immeasurably better for their feedback and guidance, though I alone am to blame for any remaining 'infelicities.'ORCIDPaja Faudree http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5802-7391…
Why X doesn't always mark the spot: Contested authenticity in Mexican indigenous language politics
In this article, I consider competing notions of "alphabetic authenticity" and indigenous authorship among Mexican indigenous authors and activists. Orthographies form a special focus, as choices about them entail envisioning particular kinds of texts and, hence, types of readers. I focus on the divergent strategies - all fundamentally semiotic - that people advocate in developing "authentic indigenous writing" and in using various meta-semiotic …
Introduction: "Diversity Talk" and Its Others
Singing for the dead, on and off line: Diversity, migration, and scale in Mexican Muertos music
Made in Translation: Revisiting the Chontal Maya Account of the Conquest
In this article, I argue for placing the study of translators and translation processes more squarely at the center of ethnohistoric research. I focus on two texts well known to scholars: a seventeenth-century text written in Chontal Maya and its contemporary translation into Spanish. I discuss how translation practices contributed to the creation of the Chontal text and then analyze the systematic discrepancies between it and the contemporary Sp…
What is an Indigenous Author: Minority Authorship and the Politics of Voice in Mexico
This article examines the politics of voice in Mexican indigenous authorship for the insights it might offer anthropological theory. It takes up the multiple barriers of access indigenous authors face in participating in authorship as a general project, noting the importance of authorship as a point of entry into such universal projects as citizenship, modernity, human rights, democracy, and intellectual property rights. That resonance places the…
Tales from the Land of Magic Plants: Textual Ideologies and Fetishes of Indigeneity in Mexico's Sierra Mazateca
Anthropology and other disciplines are engaged in an extended conversation about how to understand the dynamics of global interconnection. One dominant approach stresses political economies of global markets, exploring how commodity chains structure social relations and vice versa. I propose instead an emphasis on how semiotic mediation, specifically textual representation, shapes the circulation of material goods and surrounding social relations…
Between Aspiration and Apathy: Shifting Scale and the “Worlding” of Indigenous Day of the Dead Music
This article examines Mazatec Day of the Dead music, a popular musical form featuring lyrics in the indigenous Mexican language Mazatec, which has become popular online and off, with some practitioners even dreaming of global prominence. I use the tension between musical aspirations and apathy to illuminate how the creation of “world musics” and other popular forms depends on unstable recalibrations of scale, including “shrinking” tendencies when…
Communicating Bodies
Language and Social Justice
"Making Medicine" withSalvia divinorum: Competing Approaches and Their Implications
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 …
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