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Ethnic Capital in a Japanese Brazilian Commune

Children of Nature

By: Nobuko Adachi

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Ethnic Capital in a Japanese Brazilian Commune

Children of Nature

By: Nobuko Adachi

This is a book about the power ethnic capital and how it drives both the economics of, and the quest for identity in, a Japanese Brazilian commune. Adachi tells readers what this small diaspora community can teach us about how life “in the trenches” looks to those on the outskirts of the exploding transnational world economy. This book explores the various strategies locals use to compete with others with whom they are linked locally, nationally, and globally. Through the story of Kubo daily life, Adachi offers insights into important aspects of social and linguistic theory, as well as explicating how cross-border relations become more and more intertwined. In a sense, Kubo’s story, with its struggles to maintain its identity—even its survival—in an increasingly globalized world, encapsulates many of the problems now faced by smaller communities around the world, be they diasporic or regionally entrenched, or ethnically, racially, or religiously composed. Adachi explores the motivations for racial and ethnic boundary-making based primarily on values and principles rather than purely physiological features by focusing on Kubo and its marketing of supposedly traditional Japanese cultural values, in spite of the commune being located in the interior of Brazil. To do this she incorporates notions from linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics, including problems of language maintenance, the relationships between language and symbolic power, and the intricacies of language and gender. Doing so helps theorize the tensions between hybridity and purity entailed in the complexities of identity dynamics.

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Lexington Books

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1498544851

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Language, Culture, and Society

An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

By: James Stanlaw,Nobuko Adachi,Zdenek Salzmann

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An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

By: James Stanlaw,Nobuko Adachi,Zdenek Salzmann

Why should we study language? How do the ways in which we communicate define our identities? And how is this all changing in the digital world? Since 1993, many have turned to Language, Culture, and Society for answers to questions like those above because of its comprehensive coverage of all critical aspects of linguistic anthropology. This seventh edition carries on the legacy while addressing some of the newer pressing and exciting challenges of the 21st century, such as issues of language and power, language ideology, and linguistic diasporas. Chapters on gender, race, and class also examine how language helps create - and is created by - identity. New to this edition are enhanced and updated pedagogical features, such as learning objectives, updated resources for continued learning, and the inclusion of a glossary. There is also an expanded discussion of communication online and of social media outlets and how that universe is changing how we interact. The discussion on race and ethnicity has also been expanded to include Latin- and Asian-American English vernacular.

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Routledge

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0429974701

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Language, Culture, and Society

An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

By: Zdenek Salzmann,James Stanlaw,Nobuko Adachi

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An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

By: Zdenek Salzmann,James Stanlaw,Nobuko Adachi

Why should we study language? How do the ways in which we communicate define our identities? And how is this all changing in the digital world? Since 1993, many have turned to Language, Culture, and Society for answers to questions like those above because of its comprehensive coverage of all critical aspects of linguistic anthropology. This seventh edition carries on the legacy while addressing some of the newer pressing and exciting challenges of the 21st century, such as issues of language and power, language ideology, and linguistic diasporas. Chapters on gender, race, and class also examine how language helps create-and is created by-identity. New to this edition are enhanced and updated pedagogical features, such as learning objectives, updated resources for continued learning, and the inclusion of a glossary. There is also an expanded discussion of communication online and of social media outlets and how that universe is changing how we interact. The discussion on race and ethnicity has also been expanded to include Latin- and Asian-American English vernacular.

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Westview Press

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0813349559

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9780813349558

Language, Culture, and Society

An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

By: Zdenek Salzmann,James Stanlaw,Nobuko Adachi

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An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

By: Zdenek Salzmann,James Stanlaw,Nobuko Adachi

Why should we study language? How do the ways in which we communicate define our identities? And how is this all changing in the digital world? Since 1993, many have turned to Language, Culture, and Society for answers to questions like those above because of its comprehensive coverage of all critical aspects of linguistic anthropology. This seventh edition carries on the legacy while addressing some of the newer pressing and exciting challenges of the 21st century, such as issues of language and power, language ideology, and linguistic diasporas. Chapters on gender, race, and class also examine how language helps create-and is created by-identity. New to this edition are enhanced and updated pedagogical features, such as learning objectives, updated resources for continued learning, and the inclusion of a glossary. There is also an expanded discussion of communication online and of social media outlets and how that universe is changing how we interact. The discussion on race and ethnicity has also been expanded to include Latin- and Asian-American English vernacular.

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Ethnic Capital in a Japanese Brazilian Commune

Children of Nature

By: Nobuko Adachi

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Ethnic Capital in a Japanese Brazilian Commune

Children of Nature

By: Nobuko Adachi

This study is an anthropological examination of an ethnic Japanese diaspora community living in an agricultural commune in Brazil. It analyzes the group s search for identity, its place in the ethnic politics of Brazil, and its connections to transnational economic networks.

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AsiaWorld (Hardcover)

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1498544843

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East Asian Transnational Migrants and Culture in a Global World

By: Nobuko Adachi

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East Asian Transnational Migrants and Culture in a Global World

By: Nobuko Adachi

East Asians are one of the fastest growing transnational migrant populations in the world today. And with East Asian communities thriving across the world – from Great Britain, the United States and Israel to South Africa and Brazil – their role in their 'host' countries has become ever-more important when considering today's global economy. How has this happened? What kinds of social environments have East Asian migrants been facing in their 'host' nations? East Asian Transnational Migrants and Culture in a Global World offers analysis of the contemporary and historical roles played by East Asian transnational migrants and their children in the cultural, social, political and economic development of both their 'host' countries and their countries of ethnic origin. With its examination of identity formation, the development of ethnic communities and internationalisation and transnationalism, this volume is vital for those examining nationalism and ethnic identity in the modern world

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I.B. Tauris

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9948163982

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Ethnic Capital in a Japanese Brazilian Commune

Ethnic Capital in a Japanese Brazilian Commune

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Language, Culture, and Society

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Ethnic Capital in a Japanese Brazilian Commune

Ethnic Capital in a Japanese Brazilian Commune

East Asian Transnational Migrants and Culture in a Global World

East Asian Transnational Migrants and Culture in a Global World

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