Transcultural Performance : Negotiating Globalized Indigenous Identities.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Globalization, indigenous languages, and the Runa Takiks -- Rationale -- The Runa Takiks and the Otavalos: A brief history -- Key terms -- Chapter summary and a look ahead -- 2 Globalized or glocalized? Transnational or transcultural? Defining language practices in global spaces -- Introduction -- Global- and glocal-ization -- Transnational, translingual, transcultural -- Language maintenance and globalization -- Toward a transcultural perspective on globalization and language maintenance -- Chapter summary and a look ahead -- 3 Theorizing transcultural language practices -- Introduction -- Theories of identity and language use: A brief history -- Identity in interaction -- Symbolic competence -- Symbolic performance and performative competence -- Analyzing transcultural language practices -- Chapter summary and a look ahead -- 4 Gender and beliefs about language -- Introduction -- Women as gatekeepers: Gender and minority language use -- Gender, language beliefs, and language use -- Gender and beliefs about Quichua's future -- Opening the gate: The Quichua paradox in transcultural settings -- Chapter summary and a look ahead -- 5 Transcultural performances of gender -- Introduction -- Theories on gender, language, and transnationalism -- Gender at home and abroad: Performances of space and time -- Performing sexuality and hypermasculinity -- Transcultural gender in interaction -- Accepting and resisting context: Transcultural constructions of gender -- Chapter summary and a look ahead -- 6 Transcultural performances of ethnicity -- Introduction -- The Otavalos: Myths, perceptions, realities -- 'Where are you from?' Negotiating ethnic identities with English-speaking customers -- Andean Latino authenticity: Performing pan-Latin identities.

The 'mall' of Otavalo -- Transcultural indigeneities: Ethnicity as strategic, contextual, and negotiated -- Chapter summary and a look ahead -- 7 Transcultural performance and legitimacy: Seven years later -- Introduction -- The Runa Takiks now -- Transcultural hair practices, reactive positioning, and legitimate Quichua -- Contesting language loss: Voices of the new generation -- Language loss and gain in transcultural spaces -- Chapter summary and a look ahead -- 8 Conclusions and implications for indigenous and minority languages -- Transcultural language beliefs and practices -- Transcultural performances of gender -- Transcultural performances of ethnicity -- Transcultural Quichua: Successes, challenges, implications -- Revisiting theory: Transcultural performance -- Future research and final words -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 5 -- Appendix 1: Participants and family relationship, by provenance -- I. Huamán family, Peguche -- II. Band members unrelated to Marco -- Appendix 2: Transcription conventions used in Chapters 5 to 7 -- Bibliography -- Index.

Featuring interviews, conversations and observations from a multi-sited ethnography of Ecuadorean musicians and their families, this book offers an innovative response to previous analyses of globalization and indigenous languages, demonstrating how transcultural practices can enhance the use and maintenance of indigenous and minority languages.

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