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    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is an innovative sociolinguistic study of New Australia, an Australian immigrant community in Paraguay in 1893, whose descendants today speak Guarani. Providing fresh data on a previously under-researched community who are an extremely rare case of language shifting from English heritage language to a local indigenous language, the case study is situated within the wider context of the ... Read more

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  • Feminist Activist Ethnography

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    Writing in the wake of neoliberalism, where human rights and social justice have increasingly been subordinated to proliferating “consumer choices” and ideals of market justice, contributors to this collection argue that feminist ethnographers are in a key position to reassert the central feminist connections between theory, methods, and activism. Together, we suggest avenues for incorporating ... Read more

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    Series series New Directions in Ethnography
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  • The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies

    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics
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    Series series Oxf Studies in Anthropology of Language
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  • The Language of the Inka since the European Invasion

    Series series Texas Linguistics Series
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