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Language, Coffee, and Migration on an Andean-Amazonian Frontier /

"This ethnography takes us to remote Amazonian villages, dusty frontier towns, roadside bargaining sessions, and coffee traders' homes to offer a new view of settlement frontiers as they are negotiated in linguistic interactions and social relationships. The book brings together a fine-gra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Emlen, Nicholas Q., 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson, Arizona : University of Arizona Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"This ethnography takes us to remote Amazonian villages, dusty frontier towns, roadside bargaining sessions, and coffee traders' homes to offer a new view of settlement frontiers as they are negotiated in linguistic interactions and social relationships. The book brings together a fine-grained analysis of multilingualism with urgent issues in Latin America today. It is a timely on-the-ground perspective on the agricultural colonization of the Amazon, which has triggered an environmental emergency threatening the future of the planet"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (296 pages).
ISBN:9780816541355