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Lessons from Documented Endangered LanguagesEdited by K. David Harrison, David S. Rood and Arienne Dwyer
[Typological Studies in Language 78] 2008
► pp. 43–66
Working Together: The interface between researchers and the native people - The Trumai case
Aurore Monod Becquelin | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Emmanuel de Vienne | Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France
Raquel Guirardello-Damian | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Holland
There is no unified policy for preservation and/or documentation of endangered languages. Each case engenders its own issues and constraints due to its particular cultural and historical situation. Documentation of the Amazonian Trumai language and culture illustrates the intricacy of the parameters that run the gamut from globalisation to local and punctual conflicts, and from the state of world affairs to quarrels over chiefdom inheritance.
Published online: 11 September 2008
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.78.03bec
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.78.03bec
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