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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Abstract Id(s): 37782.0