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TITLE: Ethnography, Identity and Ethnohistory: Studying Narrative in Contemporary and Colonial Tlaxcala, Mexico
SPEAKER: Jacqueline Messing
EVENT DATE: 06/24/2009
FORMAT: Video + Captions
RUNNING TIME: 60 minutes
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DESCRIPTION:
Each year, indigenous languages around the world disappear with the death of their last living speaker. Jacqueline Messing believes that it is imperative for the social sciences and humanities to explain how and why people come to abandon their ancestral languages, as well as the role of colonialism, globalization and racism in this process. From a linguistic-anthropological and ethnohistorical perspective, she discussed identity emergent in narratives from the sixteenth century historical record of indigenous communities in the Nahuatl-speaking state of Tlaxcala, Mexico, a region that was pivotal in the conquest of Mexico.
Speaker Biography: Jacqueline Messing, Kislak Fellow in American Studies in 2008, is from the University of South Florida.