Language, Coffee, and Migration on an Andean-Amazonian Frontier

This ethnography takes us to remote Amazonian villages, dusty frontier towns, roadside bargaining sessions, and coffee traders' homes to offer a new view of settlement frontiers as they are negotiated in linguistic interactions and social relationships. The book brings together a fine-grained analysis of multilingualism with urgent issues in Latin America today. It is a timely on-the-ground perspective on the agricultural colonization of the Amazon, which has triggered an environmental emergency threatening the future of the planet--

• | Author: Nicholas Q. Emlen
• | Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• | Publication Date: April 07, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 296 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0816540705
• | ISBN-13: 9780816540709