Narratives of Place, Belonging and Language

Abstract

Draws on an ethnography of Ecuadorian folkloric musicians and their families to illustrate how they negotiate languages, gender, and ethnicity at home and abroad. Introduction : globalization, indigenous languages, and the Runa Takiks -- Globalized or glocalized? Transnational or transcultural? : defining language practices in global spaces -- Theorizing transcultural language practices -- Gender and beliefs about language -- Transcultural performances of gender -- Transcultural performances of ethnicity -- Transcultural performance and legitimacy : seven years later -- Conclusions and implications for indigenous and minority languages -- Appendix 1: Participants and family relationship, by provenance -- Appendix 2: Transcription conventions used in chapters 5 to 7.