We are going to be exposed to a good deal of information about these
four countries. Instead of giving you specific study questions, I
would like you to do the assigned Mar-Molinero reading and also look through
the links below.
Those labelled "Required" contain ethnolinguistic maps.
Those labelled "Extra" should be browsed according to how much time
you have available. Please do try to at least skim them.
It is interesting to note that Mexican artists like Frida Kahlo as well as U.S. Chicana/o activists draw heavily on indigenous Mexican icons and culture. This may be an attempt to define themselves as uniquely Mexican in the face of other forces such as Spanish colonialism, industrialization, etc.
Required:
Ethnolinguistic map: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_map.asp?name=Mexico;
Extra:
Indigenous languages & number of speakers:
Ethnologue report: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Mexico
http://www.elbalero.gob.mx/kids/about/html/indigenous/lenguas.html
http://www.azteca.net/aztec/lang.html
http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/travel/tonysarticles/tbdid0402.html
Oaxacan Language Preservation Center: http://www.literacyonline.org/explorer/oax_over.html
"Is education destroying indigenous languages in Chiapas?" http://www.hist.umn.edu/~rmccaa/chsind/chsind1.htm
"The use of multimedia and the arts in language revitalization, maintenance and development: The case of the Balsas Nahuas of Guerreo, Mexico" http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/ILAC/ILAC_24.pdf (12 pages)
Required:
Ethnolinguistic map: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_map.asp?name=Peru
Extra:
"An Introduction to the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, Particularly
in the Andes"
http://www.shef.ac.uk/q/quechua/i_INTRO.HTM#Andes
Ethnologue: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Peru
"Functional Domains of the Quechua Language in Peru" http://www.hum.port.ac.uk/slas/ss12/SCORONEL.HTM
Interesting abstract by Carol Klee: http://www7.tamu-commerce.edu/swjl/public_html/swjl/01_1abstracts.html
Required:
Ethnolinguistic map: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_map.asp?name=Paraguay
Extra:
Ethnologue: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Paraguay
June 1992 Constitutional Proclamations about language: http://www.unesco.org/most/lnparagu.htm
See an example of Guarani text alongside its English equivalent: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9479/guarani.html
"Paraguayan language policy: a sociolinguistic and post-colonial perspective"
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~sngynan/f99paper.html
Interesting abstract by Shaw Gynan: http://www7.tamu-commerce.edu/swjl/public_html/swjl/01_1abstracts.html
Required:
Ethnolinguistic map http://www.ethnologue.com/show_map.asp?name=Brazil&seq=1
Extra:
Ethnologue: http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Brazil
Endangered languages of Brazil: http://www.sil.org/americas/brasil/INDGLANG/ENGLDGLG.HTM
Schooling: http://www.socioambiental.org/website/pib/english/languages/esc.htm
Overview: http://www.socioambiental.org/website/pib/english/languages/