Engaging Native American Publics

Paul V. Kroskrity is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, United States. He served as Chair of the Interdepartmental Program in American Indian Studies and is a past President of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.Barbra A. Meek is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Michigan, United States.

• Introduction1. Native American Languages and Linguistic Anthropology: From the Legacy of Salvage Anthropology to the Promise of Linguistic Self-DeterminationBarbra A. MeekPart I: Collaboration2. There’s No Easy Way to Talk about Language Change or Language Loss: The Difficulties and Rewards of Linguistic Collaboration Gus Palmer, Jr.3. Recontextualizing Kumeyaay Oral Literature for the Twenty-First CenturyMargaret Field 4. “You Shall Not Become This Kind of People”: Indigenous Political Argument in Maidu Linguistic Text Collections M. Eleanor Nevins5. To “We” (+inclusive) or Not to “We” (–inclusive): The CD-ROM Taitaduhaan (Our Language) and Western Mono Future Publics Paul V. KroskrityPart II: Circulation6. Future Imperfect: Advocacy, Rhetoric, and Public Anxiety over Maliseet Language Life and DeathBernard C. Perley7. Perfecting Publics: Future Audiences and the Aesthetics of RefinementErin DebenportPart III: Scaling Publics8. “I Don’t Write Navajo Poetry, I Just Speak the Poetry in Navajo”: Ethical Listeners, Poetic Communion, and Imagined Future Publics of Navajo PoetryAnthony K. Webster9. Reflections on Navajo Publics, “New” Media, and Documentary Futures Leighton Peterson10. Labelling Knowledge: The Semiotics of Immaterial Cultural Property and the Production of New Indigenous PublicsJane Anderson, Hannah McElgunn, and Justin Richland