Discursive practices in the construction of identity: the life remembrances of a Yaqui woman
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Discursive practices, ethnic identity, rhetorical skills, Yaqui woman.Abstract
This article analyzes the life history of a Yaqui woman. Speech becomes a space whereby the narrator offers a testimony through which she expresses her appreciation of the Yaqui world, along with her identification with it. In the discourse itself, one can observe her acceptance of the role she plays through her discursive practices. The discourse itself allows the woman to self-construct herself as a person that positively influences the younger members of her community. The narrative of Anabela –or Jeka Ania as the protagonist prefers to name herself– interweaves a journey of remembrances through which the appreciation of the ancestral culture of her people and the imaginary world of the Yaquis is highlighted. This analysis emphasizes the rhetorical skills of the protagonist, the discursive practices that reflect the appreciation of her ethnic affiliation, her confrontation with all that is non-yaqui –or the yori–, along with her identity as a Mexican. Jeka Ania’s narrative skills are most striking when she is attending two types of audiences: those who invited her to recite her life story, and the Yaqui youth in general.
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2016 Diccionario yaqui de bolsillo. Jiak noki-español/Español-Jiak noki. Universidad de Sonora. Hermosillo.
Dijk, Teun A. van
1997 The study of discourse. An Introduction, en Discourse as structure and process: A multidisciplinary introduction. Sage Publications Ltd. <http://www.discourses.org/OldArticles/The%20study%20of%20discourse.pdf>. Consultado el 16 de abril de 2016.
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Duranti, Alessandro
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2012 The handbook of language socialization. Blackwell. Malden: 564-586.
Estrada Fernández, Zarina
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Antropológicas. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. México: 289-310.
Estrada Fernández, Zarina, Crescencio Buitimea Valenzuela, Adriana Elizabeth Gurrola Camacho, María Elena Castillo Celaya y Anabela Carlón Flores
2004 Diccionario yaqui-español y textos. Obra de preservación lingüística. Editorial Plaza y Valdés/Universidad de Sonora. México.
Estrada Fernández, Zarina, Manuel Carlos Silva Encinas y Crescencio Buitimea Valenzuela
2009b El discurso de los pascolas entre los yaqui de Sonora, México. Tlalocan. Revista de fuentes para el conocimiento de las culturas indígenas de México, vol. XVI: 146-167.
Estrada Fernández, Zarina, Anabela Carlón Flores y Rebeca Gutiérrez Estrada
2018 Jeka Aniata jiapsi: Jiak jamutta etejoi / Vida de Jeka Ania: Historia de una mujer yaqui. Universidad de Sonora. Hermosillo.
Geertz, Clifford
2003 [1973] La interpretación de las culturas, duodécima reimpresión en español. Editorial Gedisa. Barcelona.
Gilroy, Paul
1993 The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Goffman, Erving
1974 Frame Analysis. Northeastern University Press. Boston.
1981 Forms of Talk. University of Pennsylvania Press. Filadelfia.
Goodenough, Ward H.
1965 Rethinking ‘Status’ and ‘Role’: Toward a general model of the cultural organization of social relationships, en The Relevance of Models for Social Anthropology, A.S.A. Monographs 1. Tavistock Publications. Nueva York; Frederick A. Praeger, Publishes. Londres: 1-24.
Goodwin, Charles
2007 Interactive footing, en Voicing Reported Speech and Footing in Conversation, E. Holt y R. Clift. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge: 16-46.
Hymes, Dell
1972 Models of the interaction of language and social life, en Directions in sociolinguistics: The ethnography of communication, J. J. Gumperz y D. Hymes (eds.). Holt, Rinehart & Winston. Nueva York: 35-71.
1996 Ethnography, Linguistics, Narrative Inequality: Towards and Understanding of Voice. Taylor and Francis. Londres.
Labov, William y Joshua Waletsky
1967 Narrative Analysis. Oral versions of Personal Experience, en Essays on the Verbal and Visual Arts. University of Washington Press. Seattle: 12-44.
Ochs, Elinor y Bambi B. Schieffelin
2012 The theory of Language Socialization, en The Handbook of Language Socialization, A. Duranti, E. Ochs, y B. B. Schieffelin. Wiley-Blackwell. Malden-Oxford: 1-21.
Pellicer, Dora
2016 Bilingüismo: conocimiento, uso y entendimiento entre los hablantes, en UniverSOS: Revista de lenguas indígenas y universos culturales, 13: 169-192.
Schieffelin, Bambi B. y Elinor Ochs
1986 Language Socialization Across Cultures. Cambridge University Press. Nueva York.
Sen, Amartya
2001 La otra gente. Más allá de la identidad, en Letras Libres. Disponible en: <http://www.letraslibres.com/revista/convivio/la-otra-gente-masalla-de-la-identidad>. Consultado el 18 de julio de 2016.
Woolard, Kathryn A. y Bambi B. Schieffelin
1994 Language ideology. Annual Review of Anthropology, 23: 55-82.
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2019-07-15
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Estrada Fernández, Z., & Gutiérrez Estrada, M. R. (2019). Discursive practices in the construction of identity: the life remembrances of a Yaqui woman. Cuicuilco Revista De Ciencias Antropológicas, 26(74), 67–86. Retrieved from https://revistas.inah.gob.mx/index.php/cuicuilco/article/view/14115
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