Query about language loss and Diaspora folklore

[Natalie Kononenko]

Dear fellow list members,

I need help with references.  I'm sure that I have read how, in a
Diaspora community, as the original language gets lost, there is an
increasing emphasis on the use of objects, esp. ritual objects, to
signal ethnic identity.  Essentially this is a switch from the verbal
to the visual.  As I said, I'm sure I have read this, but I don't know
where.  I may be brain-dead after reading well over 1000 pages of
undergrad essays and exams in less that a week, so...  Please do help
me out.

Natalie

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Natalie Kononenko
Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography
University of Alberta
200 Arts Building
Edmonton AB Canada T6G 2E6
780-492-6810
http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/uvp/

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