Hannah Mcelgunn
Biographic Data
| ID | 80266 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hannah Mcelgunn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hannah |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcelgunn |
| SIGNATURE | MCELGUNN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5021-3977 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What do repatriation and reclamation sound like? Two examples from the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office
When the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was passed in 1990, it marked an important shift in relations between tribal communities and non-tribal museums in the United States. By listening to how different speakers at the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office talk about repatriation and reclamation, we can see that these processes involve more than the return of ancestors and belongings; they also influence how people s…
Benjamin Lee Whorf and Ernest Naquayouma's Working Relationship
In 1932, Benjamin Lee Whorf, a fire insurance analyst, began studying the Hopi language with Ernest Naquayouma, a Hopi tribal member. This article asks how Whorf and Naquayouma’s working relationship came to be and what they were talking about across their seven years of meetings together. First, I situate their relationship within the broader historical context of the 1930s, extending Regna Darnell’s concept of “invisible genealogies” beyond the…
The Many (After)lives of Benjamin Lee Whorf
Intertextual politics
Forms of Hopi cultural knowledge, and the Hopi language in particular, circulate across Indigenous and settler speech communities. Circulation is a process of recontextualization. In connecting sites of usage, it brings into being different regimes of intertextuality that can either amplify or diminish Hopi presence. To illustrate this, I look at three instances in which outsiders recontextualize Hopi objects or language: archaeologists use potsh…
Dialogic Discourses of French and English in Acadie
Debate in the Acadian media over the quality of the French language is a recurrent aspect of sociolinguistic life in this region of French Canada. In the fall of 2012, this debate was relaunched by an incendiary newspaper column, written by a Quebec-based journalist, questioning whether the French spoken by young Acadian musicians was really a language at all. Based on twelve interviews conducted shortly after this debate, this article examines h…
Intertextual politics
Forms of Hopi cultural knowledge, and the Hopi language in particular, circulate across Indigenous and settler speech communities. Circulation is a process of recontextualization. In connecting sites of usage, it brings into being different regimes of intertextuality that can either amplify or diminish Hopi presence. To illustrate this, I look at three instances in which outsiders recontextualize Hopi objects or language: archaeologists use potsh…
The Many (After)lives of Benjamin Lee Whorf
Dialogic Discourses of French and English in Acadie
Debate in the Acadian media over the quality of the French language is a recurrent aspect of sociolinguistic life in this region of French Canada. In the fall of 2012, this debate was relaunched by an incendiary newspaper column, written by a Quebec-based journalist, questioning whether the French spoken by young Acadian musicians was really a language at all. Based on twelve interviews conducted shortly after this debate, this article examines h…
Intertextual politics
Forms of Hopi cultural knowledge, and the Hopi language in particular, circulate across Indigenous and settler speech communities. Circulation is a process of recontextualization. In connecting sites of usage, it brings into being different regimes of intertextuality that can either amplify or diminish Hopi presence. To illustrate this, I look at three instances in which outsiders recontextualize Hopi objects or language: archaeologists use potsh…
What do repatriation and reclamation sound like? Two examples from the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office
When the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was passed in 1990, it marked an important shift in relations between tribal communities and non-tribal museums in the United States. By listening to how different speakers at the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office talk about repatriation and reclamation, we can see that these processes involve more than the return of ancestors and belongings; they also influence how people s…
Benjamin Lee Whorf and Ernest Naquayouma's Working Relationship
In 1932, Benjamin Lee Whorf, a fire insurance analyst, began studying the Hopi language with Ernest Naquayouma, a Hopi tribal member. This article asks how Whorf and Naquayouma’s working relationship came to be and what they were talking about across their seven years of meetings together. First, I situate their relationship within the broader historical context of the 1930s, extending Regna Darnell’s concept of “invisible genealogies” beyond the…
The Many (After)lives of Benjamin Lee Whorf
History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · History (2 works) · Hopi (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)