<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div>Today CaMP anthropology blog features the winner of the 2021 SLA New Voices Prize,</div><div>Juan Luis Rodriguez answers Rusty Barrett's questions on his book, <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Language and Revolutionary Magic in the
Orinoco Delta.<b> </b></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><br></b></span></div><div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:16px">You can find the interview here: <a href="https://campanthropology.org" target="_blank">https://campanthropology.org</a></span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Best,</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Ilana</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman, serif">Press blurb: </font><span style="color:rgb(59,63,84);font-family:tiempostext;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:-0.09px">Exploring the ways in which the development of linguistic practices helped expand national politics in remote, rural areas of Venezuela, </span><i style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(59,63,84);font-family:tiempostext;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:-0.09px">Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta</i><span style="color:rgb(59,63,84);font-family:tiempostext;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:-0.09px"> situates language as a mediating force in the creation of the 'magical state'. Focusing on the Waraos speakers of the Orinoco Delta, this book explores center–periphery dynamics in Venezuela through an innovative linguistic anthropological lens.</span></div><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(59,63,84);font-family:tiempostext;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:-0.09px"><span style="color:rgb(59,63,84);font-family:tiempostext;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:-0.09px">Using a semiotic framework informed by concepts of 'transduction' and 'translation', this book combines ethnographic and historical evidence to analyze the ideological mediation and linguistic practices involved in managing a multi-ethnic citizenry in Venezuela. Juan Luis Rodriguez shows how indigenous populations participate in the formation and contestation of state power through daily practices and the use of different speech genres, emphasising the performative and semiotic work required to produce revolutionary subjects.</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(59,63,84);font-family:tiempostext;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:-0.09px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(59,63,84);font-family:tiempostext;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:-0.09px"><span style="color:rgb(59,63,84);font-family:tiempostext;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:-0.09px">Establishing the centrality of language and semiosis in the constitution of authority and political power, this book moves away from seeing revolution in solely economic or ideological terms. Through the collision between Warao and Spanish, it highlights how language ideologies can exclude or integrate indigenous populations in the public sphere and how they were transformed by Hugo Chavez' revolutionary government to promote loyalty to the regime.</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></b></p></div></div></div></div>