My monograph, Transforming Indigeneity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon (2018) is available from University of Toronto Press. The book examines the complex politics of language, culture, and identity in a small, predominantly Indigenous, and extraordinarily multilingual city in the Northwest Brazilian Amazon. Language revitalization in this context becomes a site for creating, contesting, and transforming definitions of what it means to be Indigenous. The book is suited for course adoption in a variety of graduate and undergraduate classes in anthropology, linguistics, and Indigenous studies. If you choose to use the book in a course, I would be happy to answer student questions or arrange for a virtual visit, and grateful to hear how the text is received by your students.
Articles in Academic Journals
2019 (with Faun Rice). “Towards an Interdisciplinary Bridge Between Documentation and Revitalization: Bringing Ethnographic Methods into Endangered-Language Projects and Programming”. Language Documentation and Conservation 13: 36-62.
Available Open Access: https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/24798/shulist_rice_ldc.pdf
2018. “Signs of Status: Language Policy, Revitalization, and Visibility in Urban Amazonia” Language Policy 17(4):523-543. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10993-017-9453-3
2017. “A Tale of Two Languages: Indigenous Language Education and Ideologies in an Urban Context”. Revista Lingüística 13(1)
Available Open Access:
https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/rl/article/view/10426/0
2016. ” ‘Indigenous Names’, Revitalization Politics, and Regimes of Recognition in the Northwest Amazon”. Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 21(2):1-19. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jlca.12189?casa_token=yKLsHUrMjZUAAAAA%3Aj3pGEZK54uq8yiV3hghndJoFzNzi-ru42-CfXopWXPTwIyZ4EpJz-LKksRWczJUeWpaMSZv_2dI7T4Q
2016. “Language Revitalization and the Future of Ethnolinguistic Identity”. Introduction to a Special Issue of Language and Communication (V. 47).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271530915000956
2016. ” ‘Graduated Authenticity’: Multilingualism, Revitalization, and Identity in the Northwest Amazon”. Language & Communication 47:112-123.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271530915000403
2013. “Collaborating on Language: Contrasting the Theory and Practice of Collaboration in Linguistics and Anthropology”. Collaborative Anthropologies 6: 1-29. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/537851
2012. “Ideologies of Olympic Proportions: The Aboriginal Language Broadcast of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games”. Anthropologica 54: 267-280.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24467407?casa_token=jlxUyZCSDQkAAAAA%3Amq0X75rwVBwKNWUqpV2lN06Y_f_jCjsBJbCTucp8_tWNzk3vUV3GPWqHSqneEE5ltd0bkUesaFEvu-4tPsuTv0TQAO5r6-phG4uobRomhuATwyE2xEfv&seq=1
Sarah Shulist, PhD 