Doctoral Dissertation Research: 'Language and Performance in Quechua Missionization - Indian Peru, 1550-1650.'

这个人类学语言学项目将调查在西班牙殖民时期的秘鲁，“天主教克丘亚语”作为传教的主要媒介的实施情况。它将审查殖民政权在现有土著语言中界定和巩固标准传教士白话的机制，以及它如何在盖丘亚语和安第斯土著语言中复制天主教流派框架(宗教话语模式)。语言和文本分析将与印度教区传教活动历史的档案研究相结合。这个项目将有助于我们理解传教计划(如最近与民族主义、全球化和教育有关的语言变化的努力)如何将当地文化与全球政治领域联系起来。

Abstract 0075898This project in anthropological linguistics will investigate the implementation of a "Catholic Quechua" language as the principal medium of missionization in Spanish colonial Peru. It will examine the mechanisms through which the colonial regime defined and consolidated a standard missionary vernacular within the existing native languages, and how it reproduced Catholic genre frames (modes of religious discourse) in the Quechua language and among native Andeans. Linguistic and textual analysis will be integrated with the archival study of the history of missionary activity in Indian parishes. This project will contribute to our understanding of how missionization programs (like more recent efforts at language change linked to nationalism, globalization, and education) work to link local cultures into a global political sphere.