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The Community-Based PhD
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 441

The Community-Based PhD

This volume explores the complex and nuanced experience of doing community-based research as a graduate student. Contributors from a range of scholarly disciplines share their experiences with CBPR in the arts, humanities, social sciences, public health, and STEM fields.

Taniuki
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 94

Taniuki

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Language Documentation and Revitalization in Latin American Contexts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Language Documentation and Revitalization in Latin American Contexts

Up to now, the focus in the field of language documentation has been predominantly on North American and Australian languages. However, the greatest genetic diversity in languages is found in Latin America, home to over 100 distinct language families. This book gives the Latin American context the attention it requires by consolidating the work of field researchers experienced in the region into one volume for the first time.

Racial Alterity, Wixarika Youth Activism, and the Right to the Mexican City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Racial Alterity, Wixarika Youth Activism, and the Right to the Mexican City

While the population of Indigenous peoples living in Mexico’s cities has steadily increased over the past four decades, both the state and broader society have failed to recognize this geographic heterogeneity by continuing to expect Indigenous peoples to live in rural landscapes that are anathema to a modern Mexico. This book examines the legacy of the racial imaginary in Mexico with a focus on the Wixarika (Huichol) Indigenous peoples of the western Sierra Madre from the colonial period to the present. Through an examination of the politics of identity, space, and activism among Wixarika university students living and working in the western Mexican cities of Tepic and Guadalajara, geogra...

Aproximaciones a la documentación lingüística del Huichol
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 222

Aproximaciones a la documentación lingüística del Huichol

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Este volumen pretende, por otro lado, contribuir a la documentación del huichol o wixárica y promover el mantenimiento de esta lengua dentro de un mayor número de contextos comunicativos. Como otras muchas lenguas indígenas de México, el wixárica está sometida a cierto grado de amenaza por factores sociales de distinta índole, como la migración de sus hablantes a centros urbanos o la presión de una sociedad mayoritariamente monolingüe [Texto de la editorial].

Saberes indígenas y educación en Nayarit
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 232
People of the Peyote
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 580

People of the Peyote

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

The first substantial study of a Mexican Indian society that more than any other has preserved much of its ancient way of life and religion.

The Cultivation and Harvesting of Corn
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 122

The Cultivation and Harvesting of Corn

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1920
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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American Indian Languages
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 527

American Indian Languages

Native American languages are spoken from Siberia to Greenland. Campbell's project is to take stock of what is known about the history of Native American languages and in the process examine the state of American Indian historical linguistics.

Atlas of the world's languages in danger of disappearing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 92

Atlas of the world's languages in danger of disappearing

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001-07-17
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  • Publisher: UNESCO

Close to half of the 6,000 languges spoken in the world are doomed or likely to disappear in the foreseeable future. The disappearance of any language is an irreparable loss for the heritage of all humankind. This new edition of the Atlas, first published in 1996, is intended to give a graphic picture of the magnitude of the problem and a comprehensive list of languages in danger.