new book of interest

[Jim Wilce]

Dear list members,

A former student sent this along and I think it's worth passing on to
the list.

Best,

Jim


New in the series:
LANGUAGE, POWER AND SOCIAL PROCESS
Series Editors: Monica Heller and Richard J. Watts


Donna Patrick
LANGUAGE, POLITICS, AND SOCIAL INTERACTION IN AN INUIT COMMUNITY

2003. xii, 269 pages.

Cloth. Euro 88.00 / sFr 141,- / for USA, Canada, Mexico: US$ 88.00
ISBN 3-11-017651-3

Paperback. Euro 29.95 / sFr 48,- / for USA, Canada, Mexico US$ 29.95
ISBN 3-11-017652-1

(Language, Power and Social Process 8)


Since the early 1970s, the Inuit of Arctic Quebec have struggled to
survive
economically and culturally in a rapidly changing northern environment.
The
promotion and maintenance of Inuktitut, their native language, through
language policy and Inuit control over institutions, have played a
major role
in this struggle. Language, Politics, and Social Interaction in an Inuit
Community is a study of indigenous language maintenance in an Arctic
Quebec
community where four languages - Inuktitut, Cree, French and English -
are
spoken. It examines the role that dominant and minority languages play
in the
social life of this community, linking historical analysis with an
ethnographic study of face-to-face interaction and attitudes towards
learning
and speaking second and third languages in everyday life.

> From the Contents:

Chapter 1: Language use in Arctic Quebec: Towards a political economic
analysis
1. Introduction
2. Doing Aboriginal Research
3. The study of language choice: Theoretical assumptions

Chapter 2: Contextualizing the research site
1. The research site
2. Aboriginal politics in Canada: nunavut, Nunavik, and land claims
3. Setting the scene: Aboriginal politics in the 1990s

Chapter 3: History and representation of the Hudson Bay Inuit, 1610-1975
1. History, contact, and representation
2. The twentieth century: The Inuit and Canada

Chapter 4: Language, power, and Inuit mobilization
1. Language markets and linguistic capital
2. Dominant and alternative language markets
3. Competition between English and French
4. Inuit mobilization and the rise of the Inuktitut
5. Participating in the Southern market

Chapter 5: Ethnography of language use
1. Who speaks what: The distribution of language resources
2. Endangered languages and the "survival" of Inuktitut
3. Language survey data: Self-reports of language use
4. Ethnic boundaries and social space
5. Social networks in Great Whale River
6. Language practices

Jim Wilce, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Northern Arizona University
PO Box 15200
Flagstaff AZ 86011-5200
Office phone: 928-523-2729
email: jim.wilce at nau.edu
Home page: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jmw22

For information on Jim's edited volume, Social and Cultural Lives of
Immune Systems, click on
http://www.routledge-ny.com/books.cfm?isbn=0415310040.

Eloquence in Trouble (Oxford University Press, New York) will appear in
paperback in fall 2003. The ISBN is 0-19-510688-1.
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