Language policies of silence promoted by Hermanos Maristas at Nueva Pompeya (Chaco, Argentina)
We take an ethnographic approach to language policies linked to silence that the religious agency of the Hermanos Maristas encourages at the locality of Nueva Pompeya (Chaco). We attempt to analyze the policies that involve language and, which in turn, go beyond the State and highlight asymmetrical...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Museo de Antropología
2024
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/42917 |
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| Sumario: | We take an ethnographic approach to language policies linked to silence that the religious agency of the Hermanos Maristas encourages at the locality of Nueva Pompeya (Chaco). We attempt to analyze the policies that involve language and, which in turn, go beyond the State and highlight asymmetrical power relations as the main problematic issue. We used participant observation as a basic methodological device, ethnographic notes, and semi-directed interviews to investigate the habitus and social repertoires ―particularly silence. We emphasize silence as a linguistic policy taking into account the specific social agents. Thus, we want to think beyond the prototypical notion of “linguistic code” and the self-evidence of power. This is also evidence of a “fusion of horizons” by which religious and indigenous people (assuming no presumption of transparency) assign to the word - and its absence - a spiritual meaning. Nevertheless, these hermeneutical horizons are also embroiled in tension and conflict. There are three types of politics of silence developed by the religious that are linked, overlap, and interrelate with each other. They thus reveal a historical background and a particular dialectic of power. |
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