The Languages of the Andes
Title | The Languages of the Andes PDF eBook |
Author | Willem F. H. Adelaar |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 746 |
Release | 2004-06-10 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 113945112X |
The Andean and Pacific regions of South America are home to a remarkable variety of languages and language families, with a range of typological differences. This linguistic diversity results from a complex historical background, comprising periods of greater communication between different peoples and languages, and periods of fragmentation and individual development. The Languages of the Andes documents in a single volume the indigenous languages spoken and formerly spoken in this linguistically rich region, as well as in adjacent areas. Grouping the languages into different cultural spheres, it describes their characteristics in terms of language typology, language contact, and the social perspectives of present-day languages. The authors provide both historical and contemporary information, and illustrate the languages with detailed grammatical sketches. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book will be a valuable source for students and scholars of linguistics and anthropology alike.
The Languages of the Andes
Title | The Languages of the Andes PDF eBook |
Author | Willem Frederik Hendrik Adelaar |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 718 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Indians of South America |
ISBN |
Language, Coffee, and Migration on an Andean-Amazonian Frontier
Title | Language, Coffee, and Migration on an Andean-Amazonian Frontier PDF eBook |
Author | Nicholas Q. Emlen |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | 297 |
Release | 2020-03-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0816541353 |
Extraordinary change is under way in the Alto Urubamba Valley, a vital and turbulent corner of the Andean-Amazonian borderland of southern Peru. Here, tens of thousands of Quechua-speaking farmers from the rural Andes have migrated to the territory of the Indigenous Amazonian Matsigenka people in search of land for coffee cultivation. This migration has created a new multilingual, multiethnic agrarian society. The rich-tasting Peruvian coffee in your cup is the distillate of an intensely dynamic Amazonian frontier, where native Matsigenkas, state agents, and migrants from the rural highlands are carving the forest into farms. Language, Coffee, and Migration on an Andean-Amazonian Frontier shows how people of different backgrounds married together and blended the Quechua, Matsigenka, and Spanish languages in their day-to-day lives. This frontier relationship took place against a backdrop of deforestation, cocaine trafficking, and destructive natural gas extraction. Nicholas Q. Emlen’s rich account—which takes us to remote Amazonian villages, dusty frontier towns, roadside bargaining sessions, and coffee traders’ homes—offers a new view of settlement frontiers as they are negotiated in linguistic interactions and social relationships. This interethnic encounter was not a clash between distinct groups but rather an integrated network of people who adopted various stances toward each other as they spoke. The book brings together a fine-grained analysis of multilingualism with urgent issues in Latin America today, including land rights, poverty, drug trafficking, and the devastation of the world’s largest forest. It offers a timely on-the-ground perspective on the agricultural colonization of the Amazon, which has triggered an environmental emergency threatening the future of the planet.
Between the Andes and the Amazon
Title | Between the Andes and the Amazon PDF eBook |
Author | Anna Babel |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | 281 |
Release | 2018-03-27 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0816537267 |
Examining how people understand themselves and others in the linguistic crossroads of South America--Provided by publisher.
The Native Languages of South America
Title | The Native Languages of South America PDF eBook |
Author | Loretta O'Connor |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 399 |
Release | 2014-03-20 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1139867989 |
In South America indigenous languages are extremely diverse. There are over one hundred language families in this region alone. Contributors from around the world explore the history and structure of these languages, combining insights from archaeology and genetics with innovative linguistic analysis. The book aims to uncover regional patterns and potential deeper genealogical relations between the languages. Based on a large-scale database of features from sixty languages, the book analyses major language families such as Tupian and Arawakan, as well as the Quechua/Aymara complex in the Andes, the Isthmo-Colombian region and the Andean foothills. It explores the effects of historical change in different grammatical systems and fills gaps in the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) database, where South American languages are underrepresented. An important resource for students and researchers interested in linguistics, anthropology and language evolution.
History and Language in the Andes
Title | History and Language in the Andes PDF eBook |
Author | P. Heggarty |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 464 |
Release | 2011-11-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0230370578 |
The modern world began with the clash of civilisations between Spaniards and native Americans. Their interplay and struggles ever since are mirrored in the fates of the very languages they spoke. The conquistadors wrought theirs into a new 'world language'; yet the Andes still host the New World's greatest linguistic survivor, Quechua. Historians and linguists see this through different - but complementary - perspectives. This book is a meeting of minds, long overdue, to weave them together. It ranges from Inca collapse to the impacts of colonial rule, reform, independence, and the modern-day trends that so threaten native language here with its ultimate demise.
Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide
Title | Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian J. Pearce |
Publisher | UCL Press |
Total Pages | 366 |
Release | 2020-10-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 178735735X |
Nowhere on Earth is there an ecological transformation so swift and so extreme as between the snow-line of the high Andes and the tropical rainforest of Amazonia. The different disciplines that research the human past in South America have long tended to treat these two great subzones of the continent as self-contained enough to be taken independently of each other. Objections have repeatedly been raised, however, to warn against imagining too sharp a divide between the people and societies of the Andes and Amazonia, when there are also clear indications of significant connections and transitions between them. Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide brings together archaeologists, linguists, geneticists, anthropologists, ethnohistorians and historians to explore both correlations and contrasts in how the various disciplines see the relationship between the Andes and Amazonia, from deepest prehistory up to the European colonial period. The volume emerges from an innovative programme of conferences and symposia conceived explicitly to foster awareness, discussion and co-operation across the divides between disciplines. Underway since 2008, this programme has already yielded major publications on the Andean past, including History and Language in the Andes (2011) and Archaeology and Language in the Andes (2012).