This is a study of a multilingual migrant community on Corn Island, located in the South Atlantic... more This is a study of a multilingual migrant community on Corn Island, located in the South Atlantic Autonomous Region of Nicaragua, where Miskitu kids grow up speaking Miskitu, Spanish, and Kriol English, and engage with a wide range of media and performance practices. The book brings sociohistorical and interactionist approaches together with Latin American discourses of interculturalism, connecting children’s play and performance to broader political struggles over identity, rights, and belonging. Miskitu kids’ creative use of speech and song helps us to reconsider what counts as indigenous culture and what it can do in the world. USE CODE FLR FOR 20% DISCOUNT WHEN ORDERING FROM UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS.
Recent work in anthropology has attended to the imbrication of music, sound, listening, and langu... more Recent work in anthropology has attended to the imbrication of music, sound, listening, and language in research on, and from, Latin America and the Caribbean, as part of a broader movement across regions. In this article, we argue that these relations have their own intellectual genealogies in Latin America and the Caribbean, which have often been neglected in studies written about the region. We focus on recent theorization of aurality-the immediate and mediated practices of listening that construct perceptions of nature, bodies, voices, and technologies. We provide an overview of regional discourses on the interrelations of voice, orality, and writing, and then we discuss the aural turn in four areas: race; migration; socialization and youth cultures; and epistemologies of history, memory, and heritage. We put different bodies of discourse into dialogue as a means of charting a path toward decolonial (inter)disciplinary transformations that are built on other histories, vocalities, and modes of knowledge.
Esta obra está sujeta a la licencia de Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 4.0 España de C... more Esta obra está sujeta a la licencia de Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 4.0 España de Creative Commons. Puede copiarla, distribuirla y comunicarla públicamente siempre que cite su autor y la revista que lo publica (TRANS-Revista Transcultural de Música), agregando la dirección URL y/o un enlace a este sitio: www.sibetrans.com/trans. No la utilice para fines comerciales y no haga con ella obra derivada. La licencia completa se puede consultar en http://creativecommons.org/choose/?lang=es_ES This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.
Policy paper submitted to National Endowment of the Humanities based on consultation project at ... more Policy paper submitted to National Endowment of the Humanities based on consultation project at Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma, 2016-2018.
This article explores the construction of Nicaraguan folklore through the lens of inter-American ... more This article explores the construction of Nicaraguan folklore through the lens of inter-American indigenismo. The analysis shows that indigenous folklore occupied an ambivalent position between uplifting heritage and backward alterity in mid-20th century discourses of the Inter-American Indigenist Institute as well as in Nicaragua, where distinct colonial histories shaped different modes of representation in the western and eastern regions of the country. These representations contributed to the inequalities embedded in national visions of mestizaje, and their residues can be traced in more recent discourses on indigenous culture.
This article brings together theories of performance and language-in-interaction to interpret the... more This article brings together theories of performance and language-in-interaction to interpret the socialization and negotiation of gender and sexuality in children's peer groups. The object of this study are song games played by multilingual, indigenous Miskitu children living on Corn Island, off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. Ethnographic research and micro-analyses of transcribed song game performances demonstrate that mobile aesthetic forms are both a communicative resource and a framework for the formation and re-formation of subjectivity in social discourse. Through the social ''work'' accomplished by ''play,'' Miskitu children contribute to an ongoing reshaping of the forms and meanings of gender and sexuality.
This article adapts Bakhtin's term "heteroglossia" as a framework for analyzing Miskitu children'... more This article adapts Bakhtin's term "heteroglossia" as a framework for analyzing Miskitu children's multilingual speech on Corn Island, off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. Analysis of naturally occurring speech in this context illustrates the utility of partial competencies and hybridized speech, supporting a view of language not as a bounded system, but as a diverse pool of communicative resources that socialize children into multiple modes of voicing and acting. More broadly, the article examines the relations between language ideologies and language socialization, and the ways that both are articulated within complex histories of cultural interaction and stratified social relations. The article challenges conventional dichotomies of language loss and revitalization by viewing the hybrid linguistic practices that enable children to bridge social and cultural worlds.
5 Lula: Mariana ( ) an Coral wal. Mariana ( ) con Coral. 6 Ruby: Koko. Koko. 7 Aldrin: Yang ra li... more 5 Lula: Mariana ( ) an Coral wal. Mariana ( ) con Coral. 6 Ruby: Koko. Koko. 7 Aldrin: Yang ra lika kumi sin ai daukras. No me han hecho ni uno a mi. 8 Ruby: Mek ai giv yu wan. Dejáme darte uno. 9 Aldrin: Mek ai giv yu firs. Dejáme darte el primero. 10 Coral: No, yo firs, yo tali, tali, tali. No, yo primero, yo tali, tali, tali. 11 Lula: Duro.
This is a study of a multilingual migrant community on Corn Island, located in the South Atlantic... more This is a study of a multilingual migrant community on Corn Island, located in the South Atlantic Autonomous Region of Nicaragua, where Miskitu kids grow up speaking Miskitu, Spanish, and Kriol English, and engage with a wide range of media and performance practices. The book brings sociohistorical and interactionist approaches together with Latin American discourses of interculturalism, connecting children’s play and performance to broader political struggles over identity, rights, and belonging. Miskitu kids’ creative use of speech and song helps us to reconsider what counts as indigenous culture and what it can do in the world. USE CODE FLR FOR 20% DISCOUNT WHEN ORDERING FROM UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS.
Recent work in anthropology has attended to the imbrication of music, sound, listening, and langu... more Recent work in anthropology has attended to the imbrication of music, sound, listening, and language in research on, and from, Latin America and the Caribbean, as part of a broader movement across regions. In this article, we argue that these relations have their own intellectual genealogies in Latin America and the Caribbean, which have often been neglected in studies written about the region. We focus on recent theorization of aurality-the immediate and mediated practices of listening that construct perceptions of nature, bodies, voices, and technologies. We provide an overview of regional discourses on the interrelations of voice, orality, and writing, and then we discuss the aural turn in four areas: race; migration; socialization and youth cultures; and epistemologies of history, memory, and heritage. We put different bodies of discourse into dialogue as a means of charting a path toward decolonial (inter)disciplinary transformations that are built on other histories, vocalities, and modes of knowledge.
Esta obra está sujeta a la licencia de Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 4.0 España de C... more Esta obra está sujeta a la licencia de Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 4.0 España de Creative Commons. Puede copiarla, distribuirla y comunicarla públicamente siempre que cite su autor y la revista que lo publica (TRANS-Revista Transcultural de Música), agregando la dirección URL y/o un enlace a este sitio: www.sibetrans.com/trans. No la utilice para fines comerciales y no haga con ella obra derivada. La licencia completa se puede consultar en http://creativecommons.org/choose/?lang=es_ES This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.
Policy paper submitted to National Endowment of the Humanities based on consultation project at ... more Policy paper submitted to National Endowment of the Humanities based on consultation project at Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma, 2016-2018.
This article explores the construction of Nicaraguan folklore through the lens of inter-American ... more This article explores the construction of Nicaraguan folklore through the lens of inter-American indigenismo. The analysis shows that indigenous folklore occupied an ambivalent position between uplifting heritage and backward alterity in mid-20th century discourses of the Inter-American Indigenist Institute as well as in Nicaragua, where distinct colonial histories shaped different modes of representation in the western and eastern regions of the country. These representations contributed to the inequalities embedded in national visions of mestizaje, and their residues can be traced in more recent discourses on indigenous culture.
This article brings together theories of performance and language-in-interaction to interpret the... more This article brings together theories of performance and language-in-interaction to interpret the socialization and negotiation of gender and sexuality in children's peer groups. The object of this study are song games played by multilingual, indigenous Miskitu children living on Corn Island, off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. Ethnographic research and micro-analyses of transcribed song game performances demonstrate that mobile aesthetic forms are both a communicative resource and a framework for the formation and re-formation of subjectivity in social discourse. Through the social ''work'' accomplished by ''play,'' Miskitu children contribute to an ongoing reshaping of the forms and meanings of gender and sexuality.
This article adapts Bakhtin's term "heteroglossia" as a framework for analyzing Miskitu children'... more This article adapts Bakhtin's term "heteroglossia" as a framework for analyzing Miskitu children's multilingual speech on Corn Island, off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. Analysis of naturally occurring speech in this context illustrates the utility of partial competencies and hybridized speech, supporting a view of language not as a bounded system, but as a diverse pool of communicative resources that socialize children into multiple modes of voicing and acting. More broadly, the article examines the relations between language ideologies and language socialization, and the ways that both are articulated within complex histories of cultural interaction and stratified social relations. The article challenges conventional dichotomies of language loss and revitalization by viewing the hybrid linguistic practices that enable children to bridge social and cultural worlds.
5 Lula: Mariana ( ) an Coral wal. Mariana ( ) con Coral. 6 Ruby: Koko. Koko. 7 Aldrin: Yang ra li... more 5 Lula: Mariana ( ) an Coral wal. Mariana ( ) con Coral. 6 Ruby: Koko. Koko. 7 Aldrin: Yang ra lika kumi sin ai daukras. No me han hecho ni uno a mi. 8 Ruby: Mek ai giv yu wan. Dejáme darte uno. 9 Aldrin: Mek ai giv yu firs. Dejáme darte el primero. 10 Coral: No, yo firs, yo tali, tali, tali. No, yo primero, yo tali, tali, tali. 11 Lula: Duro.
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