Andrew Cowell
Biographic Data
| ID | 640714 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Cowell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Cowell |
| SIGNATURE | COWELL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2479-7670 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Remedies for a New West: Healing Landscapes, Histories, and Cultures
A Central Sierra Miwok Origins Story
This article examines an Indigenous origins narrative from central California. The text is an oral narrative about the theft of the sun by Coyote, recorded in the Central Sierra Miwok language. The article presents a formal analysis of the structure, language, and poetics of the text from the perspective of ethnopoetics, focusing on structural and lexical metaphors developed for describing the pathway of the sun. It then offers reflections on the…
Naming the World: Language and Power Among the Northern Arapaho
"An accessible, linguistics-focused account of language teaching, learning, and change in a Native American community"--Provided by publisher
Dementia and grammar in a polysynthetic language: An Arapaho case study
In dementia in inflecting and agglutinating languages, morphosyntax is much better preserved than lexical access or pragmatics, but little is known about how dementia affects language in polysynthetic agglutinating languages with their complex verb morphology. Fortuitously, a series of narratives by a skilled Arapaho storyteller includes sessions from late in his life, when he was evidently dementing. Verb forms and clausal connectors in the spea…
Gros Ventre Ethnogeography and Place Names: A Diachronic Perspective
This article documents and linguistically analyzes all known place names in the Gros Ventre language. Analysis of names both from the perspective of a supra-tribal system of place names on the Northern Plains and with respect to a naming system specific to Gros Ventre (which we compare to that of Arapaho) allows a better understanding of the ethnogeographic process of identifying a particular region as a homeland. Postcontact names reveal shifts …
Visions of Performance in Tahiti: Vairaumati no Ra'iatea's Arioi
This article examines the novel Arioi by the Tahitian writer Vairaumati no Ra'iatea. The novel focuses on traditional Tahitian performers and performance practice at the time of missionary contact. The paper uses perspectives on performance adopted from ethnopoetics, folklore studies, and performance theory as a way of examining and theorizing the novel's reconstruction of indigenous performance. The central argument is that the novel presents a …
Reading Tahitian francophone literature: The challenge of scent and perfume
This article focuses on one particular recent French Polynesian novel, Hutu Pāinu: Tahiti, Racines et Déchirements (2004), and more generally on the issue of how to approach and read Tahitian literature from the ‘outside’ given the heavily over-determined images of Tahiti in the western imaginary and the still relatively small (but growing) amount of indigenous literary production. The focus is on the poetics and hermeneutics of scent as explored…
The Hawaiian model of language revitalization: Problems of extension to mainland native America
This paper offers an analysis of why the Hawaiian model of language revitalization, while quite successful so far in Hawaii, has not extended well to the mainland US and Native America, despite extensive contact between the two communities and assistance from Hawaiians. After a brief summary of the Hawaiian model, it first offers an analysis of socio-economic and demographic factors that make the extension difficult. It then suggests more profoun…
The Medieval Warrior Aristocracy: Gifts, Violence, Performance, and the Sacred
A major reconsideration of the relationship between warrior aristocrats, epics, and heroes in medieval culture. The process of identity formation during the central Middle Ages (10th-12th centuries) among the warrior aristocracy was fundamentally centered on the paired practices of gift giving and violent taking, inextricably linked elements of the same basic symbolic economy. These performative practices cannot be understood without reference to…
Arapaho Imperatives: "Indirectness, Politeness and Communal "Face
This article first provides a description of the imperative verb order in Arapaho, which has never been fully described. It then examines the use of indirect imperatives in particular, which grammaticalize the roles of third parties, as well as speakers and addressees. Close attention is paid to the interplay between prototypical reference-world situations, questions of socially-determined authority and relationships, and the issue of deference a…
Manipulation of non-verbal interaction style and demographic embodiment to increase anthropomorphic computer character credibility
Arapaho Placenames in Colorado: Indigenous Mapping, White Remaking
Indigenous Arapaho placenames for the area around the present Rocky Mountain National Park have been recovered through archival research. Those names reveal a clear pattern of naming on the landscape. Human-use and human-history-oriented names occur especially often in the lowland valleys, while mountain peaks tend to be named with reference to sacred and mythological aspects of Arapaho traditional culture. The Arapaho. toponymically occupied the…
A Reconstructed Conjunct Order Participle in Arapaho
Bilingual Curriculum among the Northern Arapaho: Oral Tradition, Literacy, and Performance
In a recent book on the Northern Arapaho tribe, Jeffrey Anderson argues that the tribe has been negatively impacted by the adoption and influence of certain Euro-American practices. 1 He suggests that the negative impacts include a dissolution of tribal cohesion and a discontinuity between older and younger generations. Among the practices on which he focuses is literacy: he argues that literate forms of knowledge constitute a key vehicle for the…
Advertising, Rhetoric, and Literature: A Medieval Response to Contemporary Theory
This article examines the earliest examples of advertising and consumer commodities in medieval texts in relation to twentieth-century critical theories of the social role of advertising and its relation to both“literature” and “rhetoric.” It discusses the ways advertising and rhetoric have been linked in these recent theories and the ways literature has been excluded from this nexus. Turning to the Middle Ages,the article examines a different ne…
The Apocalypse of Paradise and the Salvation of the West: Nightmare Visions of the Future in the Pacific Eden
This article examines representations of the Pacific in the film Rapa Nui, in articles from National Geographic, and in the academic debate on cannibalism as epitomized by Marshall Sahlins' and Gananath Obeyesekere's discussion of Cook's fate in Hawaii. While the area is typically the location of an Edenic paradise, in these texts it becomes the locus of apocalypse ending in cannibalism. Furthermore, rather than being radically ‘other’, the Pacif…
The Dye of Desire: The Colors of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages
(1999). The Dye of Desire: The Colors of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages. Exemplaria: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 115-139
The Fall of the Oral Economy: Writing Economics on the Dead Body
The Medieval Warrior Aristocracy: Gifts, Violence, Performance, and the Sacred
A major reconsideration of the relationship between warrior aristocrats, epics, and heroes in medieval culture. The process of identity formation during the central Middle Ages (10th-12th centuries) among the warrior aristocracy was fundamentally centered on the paired practices of gift giving and violent taking, inextricably linked elements of the same basic symbolic economy. These performative practices cannot be understood without reference to…
Naming the World: Language and Power Among the Northern Arapaho
"An accessible, linguistics-focused account of language teaching, learning, and change in a Native American community"--Provided by publisher
Manipulation of non-verbal interaction style and demographic embodiment to increase anthropomorphic computer character credibility
Arapaho Imperatives: "Indirectness, Politeness and Communal "Face
This article first provides a description of the imperative verb order in Arapaho, which has never been fully described. It then examines the use of indirect imperatives in particular, which grammaticalize the roles of third parties, as well as speakers and addressees. Close attention is paid to the interplay between prototypical reference-world situations, questions of socially-determined authority and relationships, and the issue of deference a…
Arapaho Placenames in Colorado: Indigenous Mapping, White Remaking
Indigenous Arapaho placenames for the area around the present Rocky Mountain National Park have been recovered through archival research. Those names reveal a clear pattern of naming on the landscape. Human-use and human-history-oriented names occur especially often in the lowland valleys, while mountain peaks tend to be named with reference to sacred and mythological aspects of Arapaho traditional culture. The Arapaho. toponymically occupied the…
A Reconstructed Conjunct Order Participle in Arapaho
Bilingual Curriculum among the Northern Arapaho: Oral Tradition, Literacy, and Performance
In a recent book on the Northern Arapaho tribe, Jeffrey Anderson argues that the tribe has been negatively impacted by the adoption and influence of certain Euro-American practices. 1 He suggests that the negative impacts include a dissolution of tribal cohesion and a discontinuity between older and younger generations. Among the practices on which he focuses is literacy: he argues that literate forms of knowledge constitute a key vehicle for the…
Gros Ventre Ethnogeography and Place Names: A Diachronic Perspective
This article documents and linguistically analyzes all known place names in the Gros Ventre language. Analysis of names both from the perspective of a supra-tribal system of place names on the Northern Plains and with respect to a naming system specific to Gros Ventre (which we compare to that of Arapaho) allows a better understanding of the ethnogeographic process of identifying a particular region as a homeland. Postcontact names reveal shifts …
Visions of Performance in Tahiti: Vairaumati no Ra'iatea's Arioi
This article examines the novel Arioi by the Tahitian writer Vairaumati no Ra'iatea. The novel focuses on traditional Tahitian performers and performance practice at the time of missionary contact. The paper uses perspectives on performance adopted from ethnopoetics, folklore studies, and performance theory as a way of examining and theorizing the novel's reconstruction of indigenous performance. The central argument is that the novel presents a …
The Fall of the Oral Economy: Writing Economics on the Dead Body
The Apocalypse of Paradise and the Salvation of the West: Nightmare Visions of the Future in the Pacific Eden
This article examines representations of the Pacific in the film Rapa Nui, in articles from National Geographic, and in the academic debate on cannibalism as epitomized by Marshall Sahlins' and Gananath Obeyesekere's discussion of Cook's fate in Hawaii. While the area is typically the location of an Edenic paradise, in these texts it becomes the locus of apocalypse ending in cannibalism. Furthermore, rather than being radically ‘other’, the Pacif…
The Dye of Desire: The Colors of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages
(1999). The Dye of Desire: The Colors of Rhetoric in the Middle Ages. Exemplaria: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 115-139
Advertising, Rhetoric, and Literature: A Medieval Response to Contemporary Theory
This article examines the earliest examples of advertising and consumer commodities in medieval texts in relation to twentieth-century critical theories of the social role of advertising and its relation to both“literature” and “rhetoric.” It discusses the ways advertising and rhetoric have been linked in these recent theories and the ways literature has been excluded from this nexus. Turning to the Middle Ages,the article examines a different ne…
A Reconstructed Conjunct Order Participle in Arapaho
Bilingual Curriculum among the Northern Arapaho: Oral Tradition, Literacy, and Performance
In a recent book on the Northern Arapaho tribe, Jeffrey Anderson argues that the tribe has been negatively impacted by the adoption and influence of certain Euro-American practices. 1 He suggests that the negative impacts include a dissolution of tribal cohesion and a discontinuity between older and younger generations. Among the practices on which he focuses is literacy: he argues that literate forms of knowledge constitute a key vehicle for the…
Arapaho Placenames in Colorado: Indigenous Mapping, White Remaking
Indigenous Arapaho placenames for the area around the present Rocky Mountain National Park have been recovered through archival research. Those names reveal a clear pattern of naming on the landscape. Human-use and human-history-oriented names occur especially often in the lowland valleys, while mountain peaks tend to be named with reference to sacred and mythological aspects of Arapaho traditional culture. The Arapaho. toponymically occupied the…
Manipulation of non-verbal interaction style and demographic embodiment to increase anthropomorphic computer character credibility
The Medieval Warrior Aristocracy: Gifts, Violence, Performance, and the Sacred
A major reconsideration of the relationship between warrior aristocrats, epics, and heroes in medieval culture. The process of identity formation during the central Middle Ages (10th-12th centuries) among the warrior aristocracy was fundamentally centered on the paired practices of gift giving and violent taking, inextricably linked elements of the same basic symbolic economy. These performative practices cannot be understood without reference to…
Arapaho Imperatives: "Indirectness, Politeness and Communal "Face
This article first provides a description of the imperative verb order in Arapaho, which has never been fully described. It then examines the use of indirect imperatives in particular, which grammaticalize the roles of third parties, as well as speakers and addressees. Close attention is paid to the interplay between prototypical reference-world situations, questions of socially-determined authority and relationships, and the issue of deference a…
The Hawaiian model of language revitalization: Problems of extension to mainland native America
This paper offers an analysis of why the Hawaiian model of language revitalization, while quite successful so far in Hawaii, has not extended well to the mainland US and Native America, despite extensive contact between the two communities and assistance from Hawaiians. After a brief summary of the Hawaiian model, it first offers an analysis of socio-economic and demographic factors that make the extension difficult. It then suggests more profoun…
Visions of Performance in Tahiti: Vairaumati no Ra'iatea's Arioi
This article examines the novel Arioi by the Tahitian writer Vairaumati no Ra'iatea. The novel focuses on traditional Tahitian performers and performance practice at the time of missionary contact. The paper uses perspectives on performance adopted from ethnopoetics, folklore studies, and performance theory as a way of examining and theorizing the novel's reconstruction of indigenous performance. The central argument is that the novel presents a …
Reading Tahitian francophone literature: The challenge of scent and perfume
This article focuses on one particular recent French Polynesian novel, Hutu Pāinu: Tahiti, Racines et Déchirements (2004), and more generally on the issue of how to approach and read Tahitian literature from the ‘outside’ given the heavily over-determined images of Tahiti in the western imaginary and the still relatively small (but growing) amount of indigenous literary production. The focus is on the poetics and hermeneutics of scent as explored…
Gros Ventre Ethnogeography and Place Names: A Diachronic Perspective
This article documents and linguistically analyzes all known place names in the Gros Ventre language. Analysis of names both from the perspective of a supra-tribal system of place names on the Northern Plains and with respect to a naming system specific to Gros Ventre (which we compare to that of Arapaho) allows a better understanding of the ethnogeographic process of identifying a particular region as a homeland. Postcontact names reveal shifts …
Dementia and grammar in a polysynthetic language: An Arapaho case study
In dementia in inflecting and agglutinating languages, morphosyntax is much better preserved than lexical access or pragmatics, but little is known about how dementia affects language in polysynthetic agglutinating languages with their complex verb morphology. Fortuitously, a series of narratives by a skilled Arapaho storyteller includes sessions from late in his life, when he was evidently dementing. Verb forms and clausal connectors in the spea…
Naming the World: Language and Power Among the Northern Arapaho
"An accessible, linguistics-focused account of language teaching, learning, and change in a Native American community"--Provided by publisher
A Central Sierra Miwok Origins Story
This article examines an Indigenous origins narrative from central California. The text is an oral narrative about the theft of the sun by Coyote, recorded in the Central Sierra Miwok language. The article presents a formal analysis of the structure, language, and poetics of the text from the perspective of ethnopoetics, focusing on structural and lexical metaphors developed for describing the pathway of the sun. It then offers reflections on the…
Remedies for a New West: Healing Landscapes, Histories, and Cultures
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