Jenanne K Ferguson
Biographic Data
| ID | 156502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jenanne K Ferguson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jenanne K |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferguson |
| SIGNATURE | FERGUSON J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Reno |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0249-2638 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Siberian World
The Siberian World provides a window into the expansive and diverse world of Siberian society, offering valuable insights into how local populations view their environments, adapt to change, promote traditions, and maintain infrastructure. Siberian society comprises more than 30 Indigenous groups, old Russian settlers, and more recent newcomers and their descendants from all over the former Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. The chapters ex…
The Spectrum of Intersectionality in the Arctic: From Discrimination to Diversity and Inclusion
This first special issue of 2023 began with a call for papers that highlighted a key facet of the population often overlooked by outsiders to the Arctic—despite its relatively sparse overall numbers and low population density, the region is full of human diversity. This diversity exists within the inhabitants, both Indigenous and (im)migrant (whether temporary or permanent), rural and urban, and by sexual orientation, gender roles, class, and eth…
Feeding the Land: The Importance of Paying Attention to Sakha Language with Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Through (auto)ethnographic research in the Amga and Megino-Khangalas uluses (districts) in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), in this article, we discuss the intrinsic importance of paying close attention to Indigenous languages when exploring Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). Here, language refers not only to vocabulary but also to the kinds of communicative practices or speech acts used to transmit or talk about TEK, especially those that reve…
Lost in Translation: Overcoming Distinctions in Worldviews in Environmental Impact Assessments in Canada and Russia
How would the usage of Indigenous languages contribute to overcoming the epistemological gap between Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Environmental Impact Assessments? This article examines incommensurabilities that arise in Sakha-Russian and Cree-English translations of EIA through the translations of the most common words in samples. Without being embedded in Indigenous languages, TEK and other knowledges are easily decontextualized, and re…
Fresh Eyes
Once again, this issue of Sibirica is diverse and disparate. We move from understanding food security as a laboratory in the northern districts of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) all the way to a brief yet trilingual Tuvan geological glossary, with stops along the way to learn about an influential yet little-known Buryat activist, as well as cultural developments in Magadan in the 1950s and 1960s. However, what unites these varied pieces is a centra…
Revisitations
It is often challenging to find the strands that connect articles in a given issue of a small yet heavily interdisciplinary regional studies journal. Yet I often marvel at how certain themes emerge time and time again. This issue is random at first glance; the topics are individually diverse when compared, but it is mostly their perennially significant nature within our region that makes them similar. Therefore, in this first issue of Sibirica’s …
The persistence of antiquity: Language ideologies and perceptions of language vitality among Sakha speakers
This paper explores language ideologies and attitudes among both urban and rural speakers of Sakha (Yakut) in the Far Eastern region of the Russian Federation. Like other non-Russian languages in the Soviet era, Sakha was subject to many repressive and often contradictory policies; while today there is a sizeable, growing population of speakers and the presence of top-down support for the language within the Sakha Republic’s government, many cont…
The influence of cultural food security on cultural identity and well-being: A qualitative comparison between second-generation American and international students in the United States
The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of cultural food insecurity on identity and well-being in second-generation American and international university students. Thirty-one semi-structured interviews were conducted from January-April 2020. Audio transcripts were analyzed using continuous and abductive thematic analysis. Students indicated that cultural foodways enhanced their well-being by facilitating their cultural/ethnic identity…
Solving or Not Solving Problems
The three articles featured in this issue may not appear to be related, but within their varying contexts, I found myself teasing out several chords that resonate throughout them, and one, in particular, struck me as notable. Directly or indirectly, these articles (as well as the report) all address the notion of problem-solving in some shape or form. Whether a historical account of protest as an attempt to solve issues of discontent among fur tr…
Relating to Place
The three articles that comprise this issue of Sibirica engage with the complexities of dialogic relationships to place. What do people bring to a place? What does place catalyze for people? The authors come from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and bring disparate frameworks from human geography, cultural anthropology, and philosophy; in each article, they engage with both the immediate present and the broader arc of time and reflect on the prag…
Checking in on Sakha Studies
In going over submissions to Sibirica at the beginning of 2021, I found several articles related to culture and history in the Sakha Republic. Naturally, I thought it would be illuminating to bring them together to see how they might complement each other. Although this is not a typical special issue with a planned overarching theme, I found that these articles are not only geographically united but subtly reflective of broad underlying concerns—…
How words make the world: Language materialities and the circulation of the Sakha algys
This article investigates contemporary uses of the Sakha language algys (blessing poems) and reveals the “old” and “new” types of language materiality present in this genre of ritual poetry. Focusing primarily on one example of algys shared online in 2018, I discuss how performing algys has always involved close interconnection between language and the material world and present the changing contexts and forms of algys transmission that highlight…
Global Linguistic Flow, in Media
Through tracing the development and integration of theories related to global “scapes,” hybridity and mimicry, and (re‐)localization, a variety of frameworks for understanding and analyzing global linguistic flows is described. The history of these ideas within linguistic anthropology is discussed, in light of connections to a variety of key concepts (e.g. intertextuality), and various ethnographic case studies are presented to showcase the appli…
Movement and Transformation
This is my first full issue as the new editor of Sibirica, and I want to provide a brief overview of my previous involvement with the journal. I am a linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist who works primarily in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) on issues related to language maintenance, language practices, urbanization, and verbal art. I have been working with Sibirica in some capacity for the past ten years, beginning as a graduate student assi…
Responsibility and Language Practices in Place
e agency of virtual space is also a theme that Kaartinen touches in his chapter, Ownership, Responsibility, and Agency in Language Revitalization
Indigenous sustainable relations: Considering land in language and language in land
Rapping in Sakha
Society for Humanistic Anthropology 2017 Writing Awards: Poetry First Prize
Introduction: Language Sustainability in the Circumpolar North
This introduction serves to situate this special theme within the broader fields of language sustainability and language revitalisation and maintenance. It aims to highlight both the unique aspects of linguistic situations in the Circumpolar North as well as to present the under-theorised and practical concerns that speakers of Indigenous and minority languages in this broad region share with each other and speakers in similar linguistic ecologie…
What language advertises: Ethnographic branding in the linguistic landscape of Yakutsk
Code‐Mixing among Sakha–Russian Bilinguals in Yakutsk: A Spectrum of Features and Shifting Indexical Fields
In this article, I examine language mixing among Sakha–Russian bilinguals in Yakutsk, the largest city in the Republic of Sakha–Yakutia in the far northeastern region of the Russian Federation. Since the end of the Soviet era, the increasing movement of Sakha‐speakers from rural areas to the city has been shaping the language practices of bilingual speakers there, creating opportunities for Sakha usage outside of the home in settings formerly dom…
Language Has a Spirit: Sakha (Yakut) Language Ideologies and Aesthetics of Sustenance
Since the end of the Soviet period, usage of the Sakha (Yakut) language has become once again more widespread in its usage in both the public and private spheres in the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia. Language ideologies that circulated in the Soviet era focused on the rodnoi iazyk (Russian: native language); this paper examines the contact and interplay of these ideologies with indigenous Sakha beliefs about the nature of language and the reciprocal …
Is It Bad That We Try to Speak Two Languages?”: Language Ideologies and Choices among Urban Sakha Bilingual Families
This article discusses urban ethnic Sakha bilinguals and their language ideologies and choices, especially with regard to the language socialization of their children—both at home and within the educational system. The usage of the Sakha language within urban spaces has been on the rise in the post-Soviet years, but still tends to be acquired in the home environment as a first language, whereas Russian is acquired later in the public sphere and r…
Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages edited by J ames N. S tanford and D ennis R. P reston
Shäwthän Dän, Shäwthän Kwänjè: Good people, good words: creating a dän k'è speech community in an elementary school
This paper investigates how the processes of language transmission among speakers of Southern Tutchone (dän k'è), an indigenous Athapaskan language of the southern Yukon Territory, Canada, bear out an emerging theoretical interest in how bottom-up communicative practices shape language policy. An examination of dän k'è language practices illuminates how both fluent speakers and novices can actively create a speech community dedicated to the conti…
Scripted Urbanity in the Canadian North
In Canadian northern settlements terms pertaining to traffic are created in local languages. We assess the positioning of languages in public space in northern landscapes through evidence from Nunavik in Northeastern Canada. We argue that the co-existence of scripts is as relevant as language choice when creating road signs in the Canadian North and show how multigraphic signs, in particular the use of multiple scripts for a single language, make…
Indigenous sustainable relations: Considering land in language and language in land
What language advertises: Ethnographic branding in the linguistic landscape of Yakutsk
Code‐Mixing among Sakha–Russian Bilinguals in Yakutsk: A Spectrum of Features and Shifting Indexical Fields
In this article, I examine language mixing among Sakha–Russian bilinguals in Yakutsk, the largest city in the Republic of Sakha–Yakutia in the far northeastern region of the Russian Federation. Since the end of the Soviet era, the increasing movement of Sakha‐speakers from rural areas to the city has been shaping the language practices of bilingual speakers there, creating opportunities for Sakha usage outside of the home in settings formerly dom…
Language Has a Spirit: Sakha (Yakut) Language Ideologies and Aesthetics of Sustenance
Since the end of the Soviet period, usage of the Sakha (Yakut) language has become once again more widespread in its usage in both the public and private spheres in the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia. Language ideologies that circulated in the Soviet era focused on the rodnoi iazyk (Russian: native language); this paper examines the contact and interplay of these ideologies with indigenous Sakha beliefs about the nature of language and the reciprocal …
Is It Bad That We Try to Speak Two Languages?”: Language Ideologies and Choices among Urban Sakha Bilingual Families
This article discusses urban ethnic Sakha bilinguals and their language ideologies and choices, especially with regard to the language socialization of their children—both at home and within the educational system. The usage of the Sakha language within urban spaces has been on the rise in the post-Soviet years, but still tends to be acquired in the home environment as a first language, whereas Russian is acquired later in the public sphere and r…
Shäwthän Dän, Shäwthän Kwänjè: Good people, good words: creating a dän k'è speech community in an elementary school
This paper investigates how the processes of language transmission among speakers of Southern Tutchone (dän k'è), an indigenous Athapaskan language of the southern Yukon Territory, Canada, bear out an emerging theoretical interest in how bottom-up communicative practices shape language policy. An examination of dän k'è language practices illuminates how both fluent speakers and novices can actively create a speech community dedicated to the conti…
The persistence of antiquity: Language ideologies and perceptions of language vitality among Sakha speakers
This paper explores language ideologies and attitudes among both urban and rural speakers of Sakha (Yakut) in the Far Eastern region of the Russian Federation. Like other non-Russian languages in the Soviet era, Sakha was subject to many repressive and often contradictory policies; while today there is a sizeable, growing population of speakers and the presence of top-down support for the language within the Sakha Republic’s government, many cont…
Responsibility and Language Practices in Place
e agency of virtual space is also a theme that Kaartinen touches in his chapter, Ownership, Responsibility, and Agency in Language Revitalization
Feeding the Land: The Importance of Paying Attention to Sakha Language with Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Through (auto)ethnographic research in the Amga and Megino-Khangalas uluses (districts) in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), in this article, we discuss the intrinsic importance of paying close attention to Indigenous languages when exploring Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). Here, language refers not only to vocabulary but also to the kinds of communicative practices or speech acts used to transmit or talk about TEK, especially those that reve…
Introduction: Language Sustainability in the Circumpolar North
This introduction serves to situate this special theme within the broader fields of language sustainability and language revitalisation and maintenance. It aims to highlight both the unique aspects of linguistic situations in the Circumpolar North as well as to present the under-theorised and practical concerns that speakers of Indigenous and minority languages in this broad region share with each other and speakers in similar linguistic ecologie…
Introduction: Viabilité de la langue et le Nord circumpolaire
Cette introduction vise à situer les contributions de ce volume dans le champ de la durabilité linguistique, de la revitalisation et de la préservation des langues. Il s'agira de mettre en évidence les aspects uniques des contextes linguistiques du nord circumpolaire, ainsi que de présenter les préoccupations théoriques et pratiques, jusqu'à présent peu décrites, que partagent les locuteurs des langues autochtones et minoritaires de cette vaste r…
Samia Naïm (dir.), La rencontre du temps et de l’espace: Approches linguistique et anthropologique. Numéros Spéciaux, 433. Selaf – Société d’Études Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France. Louvain…
Samia Naïm (dir.), La rencontre du temps et de l’espace : approches linguistique et anthropologique. Numéros Spéciaux, 433. SELAF – Société d’Études Linguistiques et Anthropologiques de France. Louvain et Paris, Peeters, 2006, 276 p., bibliogr., index.. Un article de la revue Anthropologie et Sociétés (Dynamiques et pratiques langagières) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Scripted Urbanity in the Canadian North
In Canadian northern settlements terms pertaining to traffic are created in local languages. We assess the positioning of languages in public space in northern landscapes through evidence from Nunavik in Northeastern Canada. We argue that the co-existence of scripts is as relevant as language choice when creating road signs in the Canadian North and show how multigraphic signs, in particular the use of multiple scripts for a single language, make…
Shäwthän Dän, Shäwthän Kwänjè: Good people, good words: creating a dän k'è speech community in an elementary school
This paper investigates how the processes of language transmission among speakers of Southern Tutchone (dän k'è), an indigenous Athapaskan language of the southern Yukon Territory, Canada, bear out an emerging theoretical interest in how bottom-up communicative practices shape language policy. An examination of dän k'è language practices illuminates how both fluent speakers and novices can actively create a speech community dedicated to the conti…
Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages edited by J ames N. S tanford and D ennis R. P reston
Is It Bad That We Try to Speak Two Languages?”: Language Ideologies and Choices among Urban Sakha Bilingual Families
This article discusses urban ethnic Sakha bilinguals and their language ideologies and choices, especially with regard to the language socialization of their children—both at home and within the educational system. The usage of the Sakha language within urban spaces has been on the rise in the post-Soviet years, but still tends to be acquired in the home environment as a first language, whereas Russian is acquired later in the public sphere and r…
What language advertises: Ethnographic branding in the linguistic landscape of Yakutsk
Code‐Mixing among Sakha–Russian Bilinguals in Yakutsk: A Spectrum of Features and Shifting Indexical Fields
In this article, I examine language mixing among Sakha–Russian bilinguals in Yakutsk, the largest city in the Republic of Sakha–Yakutia in the far northeastern region of the Russian Federation. Since the end of the Soviet era, the increasing movement of Sakha‐speakers from rural areas to the city has been shaping the language practices of bilingual speakers there, creating opportunities for Sakha usage outside of the home in settings formerly dom…
Language Has a Spirit: Sakha (Yakut) Language Ideologies and Aesthetics of Sustenance
Since the end of the Soviet period, usage of the Sakha (Yakut) language has become once again more widespread in its usage in both the public and private spheres in the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia. Language ideologies that circulated in the Soviet era focused on the rodnoi iazyk (Russian: native language); this paper examines the contact and interplay of these ideologies with indigenous Sakha beliefs about the nature of language and the reciprocal …
Introduction: Language Sustainability in the Circumpolar North
This introduction serves to situate this special theme within the broader fields of language sustainability and language revitalisation and maintenance. It aims to highlight both the unique aspects of linguistic situations in the Circumpolar North as well as to present the under-theorised and practical concerns that speakers of Indigenous and minority languages in this broad region share with each other and speakers in similar linguistic ecologie…
Society for Humanistic Anthropology 2017 Writing Awards: Poetry First Prize
Indigenous sustainable relations: Considering land in language and language in land
Rapping in Sakha
Global Linguistic Flow, in Media
Through tracing the development and integration of theories related to global “scapes,” hybridity and mimicry, and (re‐)localization, a variety of frameworks for understanding and analyzing global linguistic flows is described. The history of these ideas within linguistic anthropology is discussed, in light of connections to a variety of key concepts (e.g. intertextuality), and various ethnographic case studies are presented to showcase the appli…
Movement and Transformation
This is my first full issue as the new editor of Sibirica, and I want to provide a brief overview of my previous involvement with the journal. I am a linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist who works primarily in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) on issues related to language maintenance, language practices, urbanization, and verbal art. I have been working with Sibirica in some capacity for the past ten years, beginning as a graduate student assi…
Responsibility and Language Practices in Place
e agency of virtual space is also a theme that Kaartinen touches in his chapter, Ownership, Responsibility, and Agency in Language Revitalization
The influence of cultural food security on cultural identity and well-being: A qualitative comparison between second-generation American and international students in the United States
The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of cultural food insecurity on identity and well-being in second-generation American and international university students. Thirty-one semi-structured interviews were conducted from January-April 2020. Audio transcripts were analyzed using continuous and abductive thematic analysis. Students indicated that cultural foodways enhanced their well-being by facilitating their cultural/ethnic identity…
Solving or Not Solving Problems
The three articles featured in this issue may not appear to be related, but within their varying contexts, I found myself teasing out several chords that resonate throughout them, and one, in particular, struck me as notable. Directly or indirectly, these articles (as well as the report) all address the notion of problem-solving in some shape or form. Whether a historical account of protest as an attempt to solve issues of discontent among fur tr…
Relating to Place
The three articles that comprise this issue of Sibirica engage with the complexities of dialogic relationships to place. What do people bring to a place? What does place catalyze for people? The authors come from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and bring disparate frameworks from human geography, cultural anthropology, and philosophy; in each article, they engage with both the immediate present and the broader arc of time and reflect on the prag…
Checking in on Sakha Studies
In going over submissions to Sibirica at the beginning of 2021, I found several articles related to culture and history in the Sakha Republic. Naturally, I thought it would be illuminating to bring them together to see how they might complement each other. Although this is not a typical special issue with a planned overarching theme, I found that these articles are not only geographically united but subtly reflective of broad underlying concerns—…
How words make the world: Language materialities and the circulation of the Sakha algys
This article investigates contemporary uses of the Sakha language algys (blessing poems) and reveals the “old” and “new” types of language materiality present in this genre of ritual poetry. Focusing primarily on one example of algys shared online in 2018, I discuss how performing algys has always involved close interconnection between language and the material world and present the changing contexts and forms of algys transmission that highlight…
Fresh Eyes
Once again, this issue of Sibirica is diverse and disparate. We move from understanding food security as a laboratory in the northern districts of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) all the way to a brief yet trilingual Tuvan geological glossary, with stops along the way to learn about an influential yet little-known Buryat activist, as well as cultural developments in Magadan in the 1950s and 1960s. However, what unites these varied pieces is a centra…
Revisitations
It is often challenging to find the strands that connect articles in a given issue of a small yet heavily interdisciplinary regional studies journal. Yet I often marvel at how certain themes emerge time and time again. This issue is random at first glance; the topics are individually diverse when compared, but it is mostly their perennially significant nature within our region that makes them similar. Therefore, in this first issue of Sibirica’s …
The persistence of antiquity: Language ideologies and perceptions of language vitality among Sakha speakers
This paper explores language ideologies and attitudes among both urban and rural speakers of Sakha (Yakut) in the Far Eastern region of the Russian Federation. Like other non-Russian languages in the Soviet era, Sakha was subject to many repressive and often contradictory policies; while today there is a sizeable, growing population of speakers and the presence of top-down support for the language within the Sakha Republic’s government, many cont…
The Siberian World
The Siberian World provides a window into the expansive and diverse world of Siberian society, offering valuable insights into how local populations view their environments, adapt to change, promote traditions, and maintain infrastructure. Siberian society comprises more than 30 Indigenous groups, old Russian settlers, and more recent newcomers and their descendants from all over the former Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. The chapters ex…
Sociology (23 works) · Political science (16 works) · Linguistics (15 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Anthropology (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Art (8 works) · Indigenous (8 works)