Brooklyn College Library LibGuides Home: ANTH 3360: Language Loss: Culture, Politics and Self: Unit 2: What is revitalization?

Schedule: Unit 2

Sept. 16: Read: Davis, Jenny L. 2016
- Watch: Heenetiineyoo3eihiiho' (Language Healers)
Small Assignment #1: Does it matter if you lose your language? If so, how and why? If not, why not? Make a connection to a reading and class discussion.
Sept 18: Read: Schwartz, Saul 2018
- Watch: Living Quechua
Sept. 23: Read: Barrett, Rusty 2016
Sept. 25: Read: Cavanaugh, Jillian R. 2016
Sept. 30—No Class

Davis, Jenny, 2016, Language affiliation and ethnolinguistic identity in Chickasaw language revitalization
Language affiliation and ethnolinguistic identity in Chickasaw language revitalization. Language and Communication 47:100-111.
Reading is via the Brooklyn College library website. You have to be logged in to the library website to access it.
Barrett, Rusty 2016
Barrett, Rusty 2016 Mayan language revitalization, hip hop, and ethnic identity in Guatemala. Language & Communication. 47: 144-153.

Cavanaugh, Jillian R. 2016 Anything can happen on YouTube (or can it?)
Brondo, Keri Vacanti, and Jillian Cavanaugh. “Anything Can Happen on YouTube (or Can It?): Endangered Language and New Media.” In Cultural Anthropology: Contemporary, Public and Critical Readings. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 88-95.

Schwartz, Saul 2018 The Predicament of Language and Culture: Advocacy, Anthropology, and Dormant Language Communities. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 28(3):322-355.
You will need your BC library login credentials to view this article
EXTRA CREDIT: Micropolis event
This is an event from WNYC about endangered languages in NYC taking place Sept. 30 7-8:15pm. You can live stream it at this link or attend (tickets $15). After doing so, please write a page or 2 describing it and linking it to at least one class reading and class discussion.