[Linganth] today on the CaMP anthropology blog

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Gerald Roche answers Shannon Ward's questions about his book, *The Politics
of Language Oppression in Tibet *on the blog today.

campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: In *The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet*, Gerald
Roche sheds light on a global crisis of linguistic diversity that will see
at least half of the world's languages disappear this century.

Roche explores the erosion of linguistic diversity through a study of a
community on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau in the People's Republic of
China. Manegacha is but one of the sixty minority languages in Tibet and is
spoken by about 8,000 people who are otherwise mostly indistinguishable
from the Tibetan communities surrounding them. Recently, many in these
communities have switched to speaking Tibetan, and Manegacha faces an
uncertain future.

The author uses the Manegacha case to show how linguistic diversity across
Tibet is collapsing under assimilatory state policies. He looks at how
global advocacy networks inadequately acknowledge this issue, highlighting
the complex politics of language in an inter-connected world. *The Politics
of Language Oppression in Tibet *broadens our understanding of Tibet and
China, the crisis of global linguistic diversity, and the radical changes
needed to address this crisis.

Roche explores the erosion of linguistic diversity through a study of a
community on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau in the People's Republic of
China. Manegacha is but one of the sixty minority languages in Tibet and is
spoken by about 8,000 people who are otherwise mostly indistinguishable
from the Tibetan communities surrounding them. Recently, many in these
communities have switched to speaking Tibetan, and Manegacha faces an
uncertain future.

The author uses the Manegacha case to show how linguistic diversity across
Tibet is collapsing under assimilatory state policies. He looks at how
global advocacy networks inadequately acknowledge this issue, highlighting
the complex politics of language in an inter-connected world. *The Politics
of Language Oppression in Tibet *broadens our understanding of Tibet and
China, the crisis of global linguistic diversity, and the radical changes
needed to address this crisis.
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