Justyna Olko
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3736593 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Justyna Olko |
| PRENOMES | Justyna |
| SOBRENOME | Olko |
| ASSINATURA | OLKO J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Warsaw |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3726-3184 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Wymysorys revitalisation theatre
The small town of Wilamowice in southwestern Poland is home to the ethnic group of Vilamovians who speak their own endangered language: Wymysiöeryś. Amateur theatre created by the troupe Ufa fisa has been one of the most important and outwardly visible tools used in the process of revitalising this language. Its members, drawn from the town youth, perform various pieces, including adaptations of world literature such as The Little Prince or The H…
Awaiting the worst
This study examines the enduring impact of historical trauma on the Lemko ethnic minority in Poland, focusing on the interrelation between collective memory, perceived discrimination, and trust toward the Polish majority. Combining qualitative methods—including permanent participant observation and in-depth interviews—with a quantitative survey of 243 Lemkos, the research explores how transgenerational narratives of forced displacement and ethnic…
Rejection-Identification Model and Minority Language Loss
The present study employs the social identity and the rejection-identification frameworks to examine whether members of the minoritized and historically stigmatized Indigenous Tlaxcaltecah group in Mexico reveal a high ingroup identity and thus may be more engaged in the daily use of their heritage Nahuatl language. To this end we hypothesized that an individual's victimization experience will be associated with concerns about the future of their…
Krytyczne (auto)refleksje na temat prowadzenia badań ilościowych w społeczności łemkowskiej
Stowarzyszenie "Ruska Bursa" w Gorlicach/"Ruska Bursa" Association in Gorlice Krytyczne (auto)refleksje na temat prowadzenia bada ilociowych w spoecznoci emkowskiejNiniejszy tekst powsta w efekcie naszych dugofalowych refleksji nad metodami bada przeprowadzonych z udziaem przedstawicieli spoecznoci emkowskiej w ramach projektu Jzykowe antidotum.Projekt ten mia na celu lepsze zrozumienie wpywu dyskryminacji dowiadczanej przez mniejszoci etniczne i…
Language simplification in endangered languages
The present paper examines a hypothetical correlation between language endangerment and the simplification of nominal and verbal inflections. After contrasting the complexities exhibited by two endangered languages (Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl and Wymysorys) with the complexities of their non-endangered predecessors (Older Nahuatl and Middle High German, respectively), the authors conclude that the endangerment-simplification entanglement cannot be …
Mniejszości i ich języki wobec kryzysu. Pakiet antystygmatyzacyjny projektu „Językowe antidotum
he publication, which is the result of the “Language as a Cure” project, analyses the influence of discrimination experienced by ethnic minorities and migrants on their health and well-being. It also looks at the benefits of preserving native languages and strong ethnic identity as well as the consequences of the pandemic for these groups. The books contains practical recommendations and solutions for improving the functioning of minority groups …
Paradoxical effects of ethnic identification on threat and anxiety during Covid-19 pandemic. A study of ethnic minority and immigrant groups
Studies based on the "social cure" hypothesis suggest the positive role of strong social identifications for well-being and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the three-factorial model of identification that distinguishes ingroup centrality, ingroup affect, and ingroup ties as separate aspects of group identification, we propose that their impact on COVID-19-related stress and anxiety would be more complex. In a set of three stu…
R emote S tories , L ocal M eanings
In this paper I carry out a microphilological study of a section of the Codex Indianorum 7, a colonial devotional manuscript in Nahuatl preserved in the John Carter Brown Library. It contains wisdom teachings derived from the biblical Book of Tobit and directed to both parents and their children. I argue that this hitherto unstudied text reveals the Native author's liberty to creatively mold and adapt a culturally remote European prototype into t…
Revitalizing Endangered Languages
Of the approximately 7,000 languages in the world, at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of the twenty-first century. Languages are endangered by a number of factors, including globalization, education policies, and the political, economic and cultural marginalization of minority groups. This guidebook provides ideas and strategies, as well as some background, to help with the effective revitalization of endangered languages. It covers…
Guardians of Idolatry
One of the most fascinating known works from colonial Mexico was penned by Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, a devout priest deeply committed to extirpating idolatry among his parishioners in the town of Atenango del Río, in a remote mountainous region of Chilapa in the present state of Guerrero. His Tratado de supersticiones y costumbres gentílicas que oy viuen entre los indios naturales desta Nueva España (1629) has become a popular object of much scho…
Indigenous Agency, Historians’ Agendas, and Imagination in History Writing
This essay reviews the following works:The Lords of Tetzcoco: The Transformation of Indigenous Rule in Postconquest Central Mexico. By Bradley Benton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. viii +195. 29.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780190673062
The positive relationship between Indigenous language use and community-based well-being in four Nahua ethnic groups in Mexico
Our study confirms that the role of heritage language use for Nahua communities in Mexico is beneficial and that this effect is also significant in communities strongly affected by language loss and assimilation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
The double-edged sword of identification. The divergent effects of identification on acculturation stress among Ukrainian immigrants in Poland
Research on the ‘social cure’ points to the many positive outcomes of having strong social identifications for minority and immigrant groups. At the same time, identification is a multi-faceted psychological phenomenon, combining three dimensions: ingroup centrality, ingroup affect, and ingroup ties. The main aim of the present study was to assess the divergent effects of these three facets of social identification on acculturation stress experie…
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl
The Twofold Role of a Minority Language in Historical Trauma
Tragic collective events bring about long-term consequences for affected groups. These effects not only affect the immediate victims of trauma, but can also influence subsequent generations. In the present research, we examined the effects of minority language use on historical trauma. In a study of 237 Lemko participants, members of a severely victimized ethnic minority in Poland, we tested the effects of cognitive availability of historical tra…
An Animating Principle in Confrontation With Christianity? De(re)constructing the Nahua “Soul
Yoliais one of the principal indigenous terms present in Christian Nahua terminology in the first decades of European contact. It is employed for “soul” or “spirit” and often forms a doublet withánimain Nahuatl texts of an ecclesiastical, devotional, or secular nature. The term-yolia/teyoliahas also lived a rich and fascinating life in scholarly literature. Its etymology (“the means for one's living”) is strikingly similar to that of the Spanish …
Dialogue with Europe, Dialogue with the Past
Nahua and Quechua Elites of the Colonial Period
Language Encounters
The extensive corpus of colonial Nahuatl texts lights on almost every sphere of colonial life and cross‐cultural interactions between the Europeans/Spaniards and the indigenous world. This corpus contains rich language data related to contact‐induced change that reveal a simultaneous, prolonged use of neologisms and loanwords, a widespread “Nahuatlization” of foreign terms as well as adoption of Spanish ideas and cultural stereotypes. The linguis…
Acting in and through the Heritage Language
Heritage languages can be not only objects and spaces of symbolic and physical violence but also powerful tools of agency, resilience, and autonomous intellectual expression and creativity. They carry a still underestimated and underexplored potential for the decolonization of both the academy and speakers' lives. In this essay I discuss the possible impacts of collaborative activities on empowerment and positive historical identities in the cont…
Defending Local Autonomy and Facing Cultural Trauma
On February 12, 1543, in the city of Tlaxcala an indigenous governor, don Valeriano Castañeda, issued an order putting local alguaciles in charge of overseeing possible idolatrous or sinful acts in several localities. This document, housed in the Archivo Histórico del Estado de Tlaxcala, is probably the earliest dated Nahuatl document known to date. This essay, apart from transcribing and translating this brief, important testimony that deals wit…
The Nahua Story of Judas
Unbalanced Language Contact and the Struggle for Survival
Looking at the Spanish impact on Nahuatl both in its full historical trajectory and modern synchronic dimension, I focus on the differentiation between ‘balanced’, long-term language contact and ‘unbalanced’ contact leading to rapid language shift in contemporary indigenous communities. I discuss the connection between accelerated contact-induced language change and language endangerment and shift, highlighting and assessing the mutually interdep…
Awakening the Language and Speakers’ Community of Wymysiöeryś
The town of Wilamowice (southern Poland) is the unique home to the community of speakers of Wymysiöeryś. The language enclave originates from Colonial Middle High German and – according to diachronic dialectological analyses – is made up of a sub-exclave of the so-called Bielitz-Bialaer Sprachinsel. As a result of social and political cataclysms brought by the Second World War and the following ban on and gap in its intergenerational transmission…
Diálogo con Europa, diálogo con el pasado. Antepasados y tradición entre la nobleza colonial nahua
In this paper we discuss the ways in which the Nahua nobility referred to the past as reflected in the testimonies of the colonial period. The reading of sources allows us to distinguish two perspectives: intellectual and pragmatic. While the first of them was closely linked to attempts of combining the indigenous and European historical traditions, the second one involved the quest for arguments in an ongoing struggle for land and privileges. We…
The double-edged sword of identification. The divergent effects of identification on acculturation stress among Ukrainian immigrants in Poland
Research on the ‘social cure’ points to the many positive outcomes of having strong social identifications for minority and immigrant groups. At the same time, identification is a multi-faceted psychological phenomenon, combining three dimensions: ingroup centrality, ingroup affect, and ingroup ties. The main aim of the present study was to assess the divergent effects of these three facets of social identification on acculturation stress experie…
Body Language in the Preconquest and Colonial Nahua World
This article examines several key gestures and postures documented in the early postconquest Nahua world: the eating of earth, squatting and kneeling, prostration, bowing, and finger pointing. Combining distinct genres of sources, ranging from linguistic evidence to iconographic data, I attempt to reconstruct preconquest practices through postconquest filters as well as to illuminate the ways in which local traditions coalesced with European prac…
An Animating Principle in Confrontation With Christianity? De(re)constructing the Nahua “Soul
Yoliais one of the principal indigenous terms present in Christian Nahua terminology in the first decades of European contact. It is employed for “soul” or “spirit” and often forms a doublet withánimain Nahuatl texts of an ecclesiastical, devotional, or secular nature. The term-yolia/teyoliahas also lived a rich and fascinating life in scholarly literature. Its etymology (“the means for one's living”) is strikingly similar to that of the Spanish …
Language Encounters
The extensive corpus of colonial Nahuatl texts lights on almost every sphere of colonial life and cross‐cultural interactions between the Europeans/Spaniards and the indigenous world. This corpus contains rich language data related to contact‐induced change that reveal a simultaneous, prolonged use of neologisms and loanwords, a widespread “Nahuatlization” of foreign terms as well as adoption of Spanish ideas and cultural stereotypes. The linguis…
Defending Local Autonomy and Facing Cultural Trauma
On February 12, 1543, in the city of Tlaxcala an indigenous governor, don Valeriano Castañeda, issued an order putting local alguaciles in charge of overseeing possible idolatrous or sinful acts in several localities. This document, housed in the Archivo Histórico del Estado de Tlaxcala, is probably the earliest dated Nahuatl document known to date. This essay, apart from transcribing and translating this brief, important testimony that deals wit…
The positive relationship between Indigenous language use and community-based well-being in four Nahua ethnic groups in Mexico
Our study confirms that the role of heritage language use for Nahua communities in Mexico is beneficial and that this effect is also significant in communities strongly affected by language loss and assimilation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Acting in and through the Heritage Language
Heritage languages can be not only objects and spaces of symbolic and physical violence but also powerful tools of agency, resilience, and autonomous intellectual expression and creativity. They carry a still underestimated and underexplored potential for the decolonization of both the academy and speakers' lives. In this essay I discuss the possible impacts of collaborative activities on empowerment and positive historical identities in the cont…
Unbalanced Language Contact and the Struggle for Survival
Looking at the Spanish impact on Nahuatl both in its full historical trajectory and modern synchronic dimension, I focus on the differentiation between ‘balanced’, long-term language contact and ‘unbalanced’ contact leading to rapid language shift in contemporary indigenous communities. I discuss the connection between accelerated contact-induced language change and language endangerment and shift, highlighting and assessing the mutually interdep…
R emote S tories , L ocal M eanings
In this paper I carry out a microphilological study of a section of the Codex Indianorum 7, a colonial devotional manuscript in Nahuatl preserved in the John Carter Brown Library. It contains wisdom teachings derived from the biblical Book of Tobit and directed to both parents and their children. I argue that this hitherto unstudied text reveals the Native author's liberty to creatively mold and adapt a culturally remote European prototype into t…
The Twofold Role of a Minority Language in Historical Trauma
Tragic collective events bring about long-term consequences for affected groups. These effects not only affect the immediate victims of trauma, but can also influence subsequent generations. In the present research, we examined the effects of minority language use on historical trauma. In a study of 237 Lemko participants, members of a severely victimized ethnic minority in Poland, we tested the effects of cognitive availability of historical tra…
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl
Hierogamy in the Aztec Ritual
"It is generally known that hierogamy or the ritual of sacred marriage was present in some cultures of the Old World. There, its most basic meaning was to regenerate vegetation and thus ensure fertility and abundance for the community. Little attention has been paid to the subject in Mesoamerican studies and, although we possess a considerable body of knowledge on Aztec feasts and ritual, none of the rites described in the sixteenth century sourc…
Supervivencia de los objetos de rango prehispánicos entre la nobleza colonial nahua
A pesar de la amplia adopción de la indumentaria europea y de los esfuerzos de la nobleza indígena para conseguir los atributos de rango foráneos, hay evidencias de la persistencia del traje e insignias prehispánicas en la realidad colonial temprana. El artículo explora los datos disponibles sobre la supervivencia de estos símbolos de rango –incluyendo tanto los objetos heredados como los manufacturados en la época colonial según los prototipos p…
Universal Empire
The claim by certain rulers to universal empire has a long history stretching as far back as the Assyrian and Achaemenid Empires. This book traces its various manifestations in classical antiquity, the Islamic world, Asia and Central America as well as considering seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European discussions of international order. As such it is an exercise in comparative world history combining a multiplicity of approaches, from anci…
Toward a Comprehensive Model for Nahuatl Language Research and Revitalization
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Body Language in the Preconquest and Colonial Nahua World
This article examines several key gestures and postures documented in the early postconquest Nahua world: the eating of earth, squatting and kneeling, prostration, bowing, and finger pointing. Combining distinct genres of sources, ranging from linguistic evidence to iconographic data, I attempt to reconstruct preconquest practices through postconquest filters as well as to illuminate the ways in which local traditions coalesced with European prac…
Empire, Colony, and Globalization. A Brief History of the Nahuatl Language
Empire, Colony, and Globalization. A Brief History of the Nahuatl LanguageThis paper is the first attempt to outline the cultural and sociopolitical history of Nahuatl, one of the most important native languages of America, beginning with preconquest times, focusing on its role in the Aztec empire, and continuing through the colonial period until the present. We discuss the most important elements of the Nahua writing tradition, its changes under…
Diálogo con Europa, diálogo con el pasado. Antepasados y tradición entre la nobleza colonial nahua
In this paper we discuss the ways in which the Nahua nobility referred to the past as reflected in the testimonies of the colonial period. The reading of sources allows us to distinguish two perspectives: intellectual and pragmatic. While the first of them was closely linked to attempts of combining the indigenous and European historical traditions, the second one involved the quest for arguments in an ongoing struggle for land and privileges. We…
The Nahua Story of Judas
Unbalanced Language Contact and the Struggle for Survival
Looking at the Spanish impact on Nahuatl both in its full historical trajectory and modern synchronic dimension, I focus on the differentiation between ‘balanced’, long-term language contact and ‘unbalanced’ contact leading to rapid language shift in contemporary indigenous communities. I discuss the connection between accelerated contact-induced language change and language endangerment and shift, highlighting and assessing the mutually interdep…
Awakening the Language and Speakers’ Community of Wymysiöeryś
The town of Wilamowice (southern Poland) is the unique home to the community of speakers of Wymysiöeryś. The language enclave originates from Colonial Middle High German and – according to diachronic dialectological analyses – is made up of a sub-exclave of the so-called Bielitz-Bialaer Sprachinsel. As a result of social and political cataclysms brought by the Second World War and the following ban on and gap in its intergenerational transmission…
Dialogue with Europe, Dialogue with the Past
Nahua and Quechua Elites of the Colonial Period
Language Encounters
The extensive corpus of colonial Nahuatl texts lights on almost every sphere of colonial life and cross‐cultural interactions between the Europeans/Spaniards and the indigenous world. This corpus contains rich language data related to contact‐induced change that reveal a simultaneous, prolonged use of neologisms and loanwords, a widespread “Nahuatlization” of foreign terms as well as adoption of Spanish ideas and cultural stereotypes. The linguis…
Acting in and through the Heritage Language
Heritage languages can be not only objects and spaces of symbolic and physical violence but also powerful tools of agency, resilience, and autonomous intellectual expression and creativity. They carry a still underestimated and underexplored potential for the decolonization of both the academy and speakers' lives. In this essay I discuss the possible impacts of collaborative activities on empowerment and positive historical identities in the cont…
Defending Local Autonomy and Facing Cultural Trauma
On February 12, 1543, in the city of Tlaxcala an indigenous governor, don Valeriano Castañeda, issued an order putting local alguaciles in charge of overseeing possible idolatrous or sinful acts in several localities. This document, housed in the Archivo Histórico del Estado de Tlaxcala, is probably the earliest dated Nahuatl document known to date. This essay, apart from transcribing and translating this brief, important testimony that deals wit…
An Animating Principle in Confrontation With Christianity? De(re)constructing the Nahua “Soul
Yoliais one of the principal indigenous terms present in Christian Nahua terminology in the first decades of European contact. It is employed for “soul” or “spirit” and often forms a doublet withánimain Nahuatl texts of an ecclesiastical, devotional, or secular nature. The term-yolia/teyoliahas also lived a rich and fascinating life in scholarly literature. Its etymology (“the means for one's living”) is strikingly similar to that of the Spanish …
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl
The Twofold Role of a Minority Language in Historical Trauma
Tragic collective events bring about long-term consequences for affected groups. These effects not only affect the immediate victims of trauma, but can also influence subsequent generations. In the present research, we examined the effects of minority language use on historical trauma. In a study of 237 Lemko participants, members of a severely victimized ethnic minority in Poland, we tested the effects of cognitive availability of historical tra…
Revitalizing Endangered Languages
Of the approximately 7,000 languages in the world, at least half may no longer be spoken by the end of the twenty-first century. Languages are endangered by a number of factors, including globalization, education policies, and the political, economic and cultural marginalization of minority groups. This guidebook provides ideas and strategies, as well as some background, to help with the effective revitalization of endangered languages. It covers…
Guardians of Idolatry
One of the most fascinating known works from colonial Mexico was penned by Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, a devout priest deeply committed to extirpating idolatry among his parishioners in the town of Atenango del Río, in a remote mountainous region of Chilapa in the present state of Guerrero. His Tratado de supersticiones y costumbres gentílicas que oy viuen entre los indios naturales desta Nueva España (1629) has become a popular object of much scho…
Indigenous Agency, Historians’ Agendas, and Imagination in History Writing
This essay reviews the following works:The Lords of Tetzcoco: The Transformation of Indigenous Rule in Postconquest Central Mexico. By Bradley Benton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. viii +195. 29.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780190673062
The positive relationship between Indigenous language use and community-based well-being in four Nahua ethnic groups in Mexico
Our study confirms that the role of heritage language use for Nahua communities in Mexico is beneficial and that this effect is also significant in communities strongly affected by language loss and assimilation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
The double-edged sword of identification. The divergent effects of identification on acculturation stress among Ukrainian immigrants in Poland
Research on the ‘social cure’ points to the many positive outcomes of having strong social identifications for minority and immigrant groups. At the same time, identification is a multi-faceted psychological phenomenon, combining three dimensions: ingroup centrality, ingroup affect, and ingroup ties. The main aim of the present study was to assess the divergent effects of these three facets of social identification on acculturation stress experie…
Mniejszości i ich języki wobec kryzysu. Pakiet antystygmatyzacyjny projektu „Językowe antidotum
he publication, which is the result of the “Language as a Cure” project, analyses the influence of discrimination experienced by ethnic minorities and migrants on their health and well-being. It also looks at the benefits of preserving native languages and strong ethnic identity as well as the consequences of the pandemic for these groups. The books contains practical recommendations and solutions for improving the functioning of minority groups …
Paradoxical effects of ethnic identification on threat and anxiety during Covid-19 pandemic. A study of ethnic minority and immigrant groups
Studies based on the "social cure" hypothesis suggest the positive role of strong social identifications for well-being and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the three-factorial model of identification that distinguishes ingroup centrality, ingroup affect, and ingroup ties as separate aspects of group identification, we propose that their impact on COVID-19-related stress and anxiety would be more complex. In a set of three stu…
Sociology (17 obras) · History (16 obras) · Latin American history and culture (16 obras) · Philosophy (15 obras) · Linguistics (13 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Nahuatl (11 obras) · Art (10 obras) · Indigenous (10 obras) · Archaeology (9 obras)