The Linguistic-Epistemic Uprising behind the Teaching of the Atacamenean Language
Author(s): Elizabeth Torrico-Ávila
Year: 2024
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Weaving Epistemes: Community-Based Research in Latin America" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
This paper examines the insurgent practices of the people of Atacama who seek to teach Ckunza, a language that is extinct according to experts and the Chilean state. The Atacameños created the academy of the Ckunza language and teach the language in the community. Thus, they revive Ckunza, decolonizing the episteme imposed by the neoliberal state and taking up their linguistic and educational self-regulation. Finally, they are recovering ancestral knowledge through Indigenous research and legitimizing the representation of identity through their language (research funded by FONDECYT N. 11220225).
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The Linguistic-Epistemic Uprising behind the Teaching of the Atacamenean Language. Elizabeth Torrico-Ávila. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 497558)
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Keywords
General
ancestral knowledge
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Ancestral Pueblo
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Ckunza
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Cultural Resources and Heritage Management
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decolonisation
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interculturality
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lickanantai
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Power Relations and Inequality
Geographic Keywords
South America: Andes
Spatial Coverage
min long: -82.441; min lat: -56.17 ; max long: -64.863; max lat: 16.636 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 37782.0