Discourse forms and social categorization in Cha’palaa

This dissertation is an ethnographic study of race and other forms of social categorization as approached through the discourse of the indigenous Chachi people of northwestern lowland Ecuador and their Afro-descendant neighbors. It combines the ethnographic methods of social anthropology with the methods of descriptive linguistics, letting social questions about racial formation guide linguistic inquiry. It provides new information about the largely unstudied indigenous South American language Cha’palaa, and connects that information about linguistic form to problems of the study of race and ethnicity in Latin America.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Floyd, Simeon Isaac
Other Authors: Sherzer, Joel
Format: doctoralThesis biblioteca
Language:eng
Published: Austin : Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas 2011-08-24T21:43:28Z
Subjects:CATEGORIZACIÓN SOCIAL, ETNOGRAFÍA, GRUPOS ÉTNICOS, LINGÜISTICA, ETNICIDAD, CHA'PALAA (LENGUA), CHACHIS, PROVINCIA DE ESMERALDAS, ECUADOR, AMÉRICA LATINA, SOCIAL CATEGORIZATION, ETHNOGRAPHY, ETHNIC GROUPS, LINGUISTICS, ETHNICITY, LATIN AMERICA, AFROECUATORIANOS, AFROECUADORIANS,
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10469/3241
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