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View article: Climing Up, Thinking With, Feeling Through: Ritual, Spirituality and Ecoscience in Northwestern Nepal
Climing Up, Thinking With, Feeling Through: Ritual, Spirituality and Ecoscience in Northwestern Nepal Open
This paper examines local knowledge, perceptions, and responses to changing climes in the Trans-Himalayan region of Dolpa in Nepal. Rooted within the environmental humanities and shaped by emerging understandings of faith-based ecospiritua…
View article: Book Reviews
Book Reviews Open
Stoekl, Allan. 2021. The Three Sustainabilities: Energy, Economy, Time . Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. 307 pp. ISBN 978-1517908188. Carrasco, Anita. 2020. Embracing the Anaconda: A Chronicle of Atacameño Life and Mining i…
View article: Tichurong (Nepal) - Language Snapshot
Tichurong (Nepal) - Language Snapshot Open
Tichurong is an unwritten Tibeto-Burman language spoken by approximately 2,700 people across eighteen villages in the Tichurong valley in the northwestern district of Dolpa in Nepal. It is also known as Poike, Poinke, Rongke, and Tichurong…
View article: Teaching Indigenous Language Revitalization over Zoom
Teaching Indigenous Language Revitalization over Zoom Open
In this teaching reflection, co-authored by an instructor and a teaching assistant, we consider some of the unanticipated openings for deeper engagement that the “pivot” to online teaching provided as we planned and then delivered an intro…
View article: Global Pandemic, Translocal Medicine
Global Pandemic, Translocal Medicine Open
This article analyzes the audio diaries of a Tibetan physician, originally from Amdo (Qinghai Province, China), now living in New York City. Dr. Kunchog Tseten describes his experiences during the first wave of the COVID -19 pandemic, in s…
View article: Negotiating Invisibility at the Epicenter: Himalayan New Yorkers Confront Covid-19
Negotiating Invisibility at the Epicenter: Himalayan New Yorkers Confront Covid-19 Open
Through audio diaries and interviews, former SSRC fellow Sienna Craig and her collaborators chronicled the experiences of Himalayan New Yorkers during the pandemic. Many Himalayans live in central Queens, the epicenter of the Covid-19 outb…
View article: Mapping Urban Linguistic Diversity in New York City: Motives, Methods, Tools, and Outcomes
Mapping Urban Linguistic Diversity in New York City: Motives, Methods, Tools, and Outcomes Open
Communities around the world have distinctive ways of representing language use across space and territory. The approach to and method of mapping languages that began with nineteenth-century European dialectology and colonial boundary maki…
View article: 4. The Significance of Place in Ethnolinguistic Vitality
4. The Significance of Place in Ethnolinguistic Vitality Open
Group vitality has long been a framework for the inquiry into language maintenance and the sustainability of ethnolinguistic communities (Smith et al. 2017). Giles et al. (1977) conceptualized the vitality of an ethnolinguistic community ‘…
View article: "Langscapes" and language borders: Linguistic boundary-making in northern South Asia
"Langscapes" and language borders: Linguistic boundary-making in northern South Asia Open
Drawing on examples from the linguistically-diverse Himalayan region, in this contribution we explore three main questions. First, we ask how language boundaries both contribute to and defy the imagination of the nation-state. Second, we i…
View article: 4. The Significance of Place in Ethnolinguistic Vitality
4. The Significance of Place in Ethnolinguistic Vitality Open
This chapter examines the ethnolinguistic vitality of an endangered language community in Nepal over a four-decade period. It discusses mobility and internal migration. The author suggests that ethnolinguistic vitality can be differentiate…
View article: 5. Speaking Chone, Speaking 'Shallow'
5. Speaking Chone, Speaking 'Shallow' Open
This chapter uses prolonged contact between Chone Tibetan and other Tibetan languages, as well as Chinese, to introduce other key concepts in the politics of language. It problematizes the concept of ‘linguistic hegemony’ to demonstrate th…