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  • Creole Cultures, Vol. 2

    Creole Identity and Language Representations

    Edited by Morgan Dalphinis, Duane Edwards, Michael M. Kretzer, Violet Cuffy ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited book considers the significance of creole cultures within current, changing global contexts located within post-colonial and developing states. It also examines safeguarding the languages and cultural practices that sustain creole identities.The concept of Creolity as approached through the different lenses of postcolonial studies, history, and anthropology is used here to consider the ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

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  • How to Think Like an Anthropologist

    by Matthew Engelke ...
    From an award-winning anthropologist, a lively accessible, and at times irreverent introduction to the subjectWhat is anthropology? What can it tell us about the world? Why, in short, does it matter? For well over a century, cultural anthropologists have circled the globe, from Papua New Guinea to suburban England and from China to California, uncovering surprising facts and insights about how ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Language in Society

    An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

    by Suzanne Romaine ...
    Why have 1500 separate languages developed in the Pacific region? Why do Danes understand Norwegians better than Norwegians understand Danish? Is Ebonics a language or a dialect? Linguistics tends to ignore the relationship between languages and the societies in which they are spoken, while sociology generally overlooks the role of language in the constitution of society. In this book Suzanne ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    The lingua franca role of English, coupled with its status as the official language of ASEAN, has important implications for language policy and language education. These include the relationship between English, the respective national languages of ASEAN and thousands of local languages. How can the demand for English be balanced against the need for people to acquire their national language and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization

    Edited by Leanne Hinton, Leena Huss, Gerald Roche ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
    The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the first comprehensive overview of the language revitalization movement, from the Arctic to the Amazon and across continents. Featuring 47 contributions from a global range of top scholars in the field, the handbook is divided into two parts, the first of which expands on language revitalization issues of theory and practice while the second ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Why English?

    Confronting the Hydra

    Edited by Pauline Bunce, Prof. Robert Phillipson, Vaughan Rapatahana, Ruanni Tupas ...
    Series Book 13 - Linguistic Diversity and Language Rights
    This book explores the ways and means by which English threatens the vitality and diversity of other languages and cultures in the modern world. Using the metaphor of the Hydra monster from ancient Greek mythology, it explores the use and misuse of English in a wide range of contexts, revealing how the dominance of English is being confronted and counteracted around the globe. The authors explore ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Decolonizing Culture in Pacific Literature

    Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction

    by Susan Y. Najita ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    In Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific, Susan Y. Najita proposes that the traumatic history of contact and colonization has become a crucial means by which indigenous peoples of Oceania are reclaiming their cultures, languages, ways of knowing, and political independence. In particular, she examines how contemporary writers from Hawai‘i, Samoa, and Aotearoa/New Zealand remember, re-tell, and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Language, Culture and Caribbean Identity

    by Jeannette Allsopp and John R. Rickford ...
    This anthology offers a refreshing and novel look at the linguistic and cultural practices of Caribbean societies, from the perspective of leading Caribbean scholars. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Endangered Languages

    by Evangelia Adamou ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    A concise, accessible introduction to language endangerment and why it is one of the most urgent challenges of our times.58% of the world’s languages—or, approximately 4,000 languages—are endangered. When we break this figure down, we realize that roughly ten percent of languages have fewer than ten language keepers. And, if one language stops being used every three months, this means that in the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Caribbean Heritage

    Edited by Basil A. Reid ...
    This volume provides an important entrée into the current thinking and rethinking on Caribbean heritage. Included are several topics that represent the rich plurality of the Caribbean experience, such as symbolism, popular culture, literature, linguistics, pedagogy, philanthropy, natural history, land tenure, townscapes, archaeology and museology. Given its multidisciplinary approach, Caribbean ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Indigeneity in the Philippines

    Studies on Knowledge, Identity, and Rights

    by Lisa Decenteceo, Juan Fernandez, Io Mones. Jularbal, Antoine Laugrand, Frédéric Laugrand, Gliseria Magapin, Maria Cecilia T. Medina, Jansen Taruc Nacar, Maileenita A. Penalba, Oona Paredes, June Chayapan Prill-Brett, Roland Erwin P. Rabang, Kyla Agnes L. Ramirez, J.A. Ruanto-Ramirez, Fernan Talamayan, Jazil Tamang, Jose R. Taton Jr., Ruth M. Tindaan, Merry Grace Valencia-Furtuna, Michelle L. Villavert, Karminn C.D. Daytec Yañgot ...
    In the Philippines, the concept of Indigeneity is deeply intertwined with colonial history, a pattern echoed across the globe. Yet, its manifestation in the Philippines bears distinct features. The Philippine Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997 identifies as Indigenous groups who resisted colonization. Today the Philippines recognizes approximately 110 diverse Indigenous ethnic groups that are ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Moving Islands

    Contemporary Performance and the Global Pacific

    by Diana Looser ...
    Series series Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
    Moving Islands reveals the international and intercultural connections within contemporary performance from Oceania, focusing on theater, performance art, art installations, dance, film, and activist performance in sites throughout Oceania and in Australia, Asia, North America, and Europe. Diana Looser’s study moves beyond a predictable country-specific or island-specific focus to encompass an ... Read more

    $46.79 USD