31.3144, Books: Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta: Rodriguez

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Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 22:03:20
From: Lianna Iwanikiw [lianna.iwanikiw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta: Rodriguez

 


Title: Language and Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta 
Series Title: Bloomsbury Studies in Linguistic Anthropology  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
	

Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/language-and-revolutionary-magic-in-the-orinoco-delta-9781350115750/ 


Author: Juan Luis Rodriguez

Electronic: ISBN:  9781350115774 Pages: 216 Price: U.K. £ 76.50 Comment: ePUB
Electronic: ISBN:  9781350115767 Pages: 216 Price: U.K. £ 76.50 Comment: PDF
Hardback: ISBN:  9781350115750 Pages: 216 Price: U.K. £ 85.00


Abstract:

Exploring the ways in which the development of linguistic practices helped
expand national politics in remote, rural areas of Venezuela, "Language and
Revolutionary Magic in the Orinoco Delta" 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.

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.

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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