Exploring Languages Preservation in Kham Tibet, Learning From 'Discourse in the Novel,' and Writing a Dialogical/Bakhtinian Ethnography
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
|---|---|
| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | University of Colorado Denver, USA, Ohio University, Athens, USA |
| ANO | 2017 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Qualitative Inquiry |
| ISSN | 1077-8004 |
| E-ISSN | 1552-7565 |
| EDITORA | Annual Reviews (United States) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1077800416684873 |
| CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
| MD5 |
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Resumo
This essay pursues three interrelated and reflexively challenging objectives. First, we celebrate Mikhail Bakhtin's 'Discourse in the Novel' as constituting a singular primer for writing and accomplishing dialogical ethnography. Second, we exemplify and dramatize its lessons by relating stories and practices of the first author's 4-year ongoing field study and involvement with languages preservation, community enhancement, and social transformation in Kham Tibet. Finally, we accomplish these first two purposes in a self-consciously reflexive manner seeking to embody Bakhtin's suggestions even as we describe them. We close with a tentative description of languages and voices we notice in writing this essay.