TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparing rural multilingualism in lowland south America and western Africa
AU - Lüpke, Friederike
AU - Stenzel, Kristine
AU - Dias Cabalzar, Flora
AU - Chacon, Thiago
AU - Da Cruz, Aline
AU - Franchetto, Bruna
AU - Guerreiro, Antonio
AU - Meira, Sérgio
AU - Da Silva, Glauber Romling
AU - Silva, Wilson
AU - Storto, Luciana
AU - Valentino, Leonor
AU - Van Der Voort, Hein
AU - Watson, Rachel
N1 - Funding Information:
Section 4 was developed by Friederike Lüpke, Antonio Guerreiro, and Thiago Chacon, who wishes to acknowledge support from CNPq and the Max Planck Institute for the Sciences of Human History. Friederike Lüpke was the primary author of section 5, with input from all coauthors. Lüpke and Stenzel were responsible for overall organization and final revision of the manuscript. They are grateful to Monika Feinen for production of the maps and extend special thanks to the two reviewers for their comments and suggestions, which helped immensely in final shaping of this work.
Funding Information:
Section 3.1 was authored by Kristine Stenzel, who thanks her Kotiria and Wa’i-khana research partners, the NSF/NEH DEL Program (BCS-1664348; FA-52150-05), HRELP/SOAS (MDP-0155), the Brazilian National funding agencies CNPq and CAPES, and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro for financial and institutional research support. Antonio Guerreiro and Bruna Franchetto wrote section 3.2, and Leonor Valentino authored section 3.3, with additional information on the region coming from Sérgio Meira. Section 3.4 was written by Hein van der Voort, who acknowledges generous funding from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO: TSL 300-72-021; W 39-273; VIDI 276-70-005), the Volkswagen Foundation (VWS: DoBeS 85611; DoBeS 92740), and the Foundation for the Support of Scientific Research of the State of Pará (FAPESPA: PPDOC 4/2010), as well as input from his project colleagues Mily Crevels, Lisa Katharina Grund, and Joshua Birchall. Finally, he is eternally grateful for the hospitality of the indigenous peoples of southern Rondônia and their willingness to share their knowledge. Contributions to section 3.5 came from Aline da Cruz, Glauber Romling da Silva, and Luciana Storto, who gratefully acknowledges the support of FAPESP (2014/50764-0), while the vignettes in sections 3.6 and 3.7 were, respectively, authored by Flora Dias Cabalzar and Wilson Silva, who wishes to acknowledge support from NSF/NEH-DEL Program (BCS-1500075).
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PY - 2020/3/1
Y1 - 2020/3/1
N2 - This article explores and compares multilingualism in small-scale societies of Western Africa and Lowland South America. All are characterized by complex and extensive multilingual practices and regional exchange systems established before the onset of globalization and its varying impacts. Through overviews of the general historical and organizational features of regions, vignette case studies, and a discussion of transformative processes affecting them, we show that small-scale multilingual societies present challenges to existing theorization of language as well as approaches to language description and documentation. We aim to bring these societies and issues to the fore, promoting discussion among a broader audience.
AB - This article explores and compares multilingualism in small-scale societies of Western Africa and Lowland South America. All are characterized by complex and extensive multilingual practices and regional exchange systems established before the onset of globalization and its varying impacts. Through overviews of the general historical and organizational features of regions, vignette case studies, and a discussion of transformative processes affecting them, we show that small-scale multilingual societies present challenges to existing theorization of language as well as approaches to language description and documentation. We aim to bring these societies and issues to the fore, promoting discussion among a broader audience.
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U2 - 10.1353/anl.2020.0002
DO - 10.1353/anl.2020.0002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85121742983
VL - 62
SP - 3
EP - 57
JO - Anthropological Linguistics
JF - Anthropological Linguistics
SN - 0003-5483
IS - 1
ER -