Landmarks and Kwoma identity
| dc.contributor.author | Lambert-Brétière, Renée | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-30T14:27:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-30T14:27:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-12 | |
| dc.description | FEL XXII (2018) Endangered Languages and the Land: Mapping Landscapes of Multilingualism; Reykjavík, Iceland; 23–25 August 2018 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper discusses how various landmarks serve as symbols of identity for the Kwoma, a people living in the East-Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea, and suggest that geographical space is constructed as an anchor for culturally-construed realities. Three different ideologies are analysed — the origin of the Kwoma people, their history, and their myths — to illustrate how location encapsulates a variety of meanings that serve as identity builders. I argue that the different place-names and landmarks reflect the ideology of landownership that counts every indigenous citizen as a customary landowner (Filer 2006), and that territoriality, i.e., the influence and control over a geographic area (Sack 1986), is determinant of the Kwoma identity. | |
| dc.description.uri | http://www.elpublishing.org/PID/4004 | |
| dc.format.extent | 8 pages | |
| dc.genre | conference papers and proceedings | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Lambert-Brétière, Renée. 2018. Landmarks and Kwoma identity. In S. Drude, N. Ostler & M. Moser (eds.), Endangered languages and the land: Mapping landscapes of multilingualism, Proceedings of FEL XXII/2018 (Reykjavík, Iceland), 19–25. London: FEL & EL Publishing. http://www.elpublishing.org/PID/4004 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/30921 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | EL Publishing | |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication Department Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Language, Literacy, and Culture Department | |
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| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0 DEED) | en |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | |
| dc.title | Landmarks and Kwoma identity | |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dcterms.creator | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1339-4531 |