Publications
Publication details [#48471]
Becquelin, Aurore Monod, Emmanuel de Vienne and Raquel Guirardello-Damian. 2008. Working Together: The interface between researchers and the native people - The Trumai case. In Rood, David S., K. David Harrison and Arienne Dwyer, eds. Lessons from Documented Endangered Languages. (Typological Studies in Language 78). John Benjamins. pp. 43–66.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
John Benjamins
Annotation
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.