Some Recent Trends in the Linguistic Anthropology of Native North America

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ID2295504
AuthorsPaul V Kroskrity (0000-0001-9937-3496, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1553, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume45
Issue1
Pages267-284
Publication date2016-10-21
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290
PublisherAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev-anthro-102313-030041
OpenAlexW2535052344
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited79

Although the languages of Native North America and the linguistic communities that spoke these languages once provided the key data for American anthropology's early agenda under Boas, linguistic anthropologists continue their study in a manner inflected to contemporary political economic realities and theoretical concerns. One area of scholarship that displays some continuity with earlier research is the study of Native American place-names, but even here contemporary researchers have explored the ethnographic surround of naming practices, including the multilingualism and multiculturalism of today's indigenous communities. Other research topics that have had less precedent include verbal art, language ideologies, and linguistic racism. Recent research in Native North American verbal art has advanced the appreciation of indigenous poetics but also developed a "critical" ethnopoetics that attends to a larger political economic context. Recent research on language ideologies has explored such topics as new patterns of language and identity and the role of ideologies in language revitalization

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Identity (music · Ideology · Indigenous · Indigenous language · Language ideology · Language revitalization · Linguistic anthropology · Linguistics · Multiculturalism · Multilingualism · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropology · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy

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