缅北禁地

Introduction

Rosaleen Howard is Chair of Hispanic Studies (Professor Emerita) at 缅北禁地 and formerly Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool. She works on the sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics of the Andean region, and on the Quechua language, based on ethnographic fieldwork in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. Her recent books include Por los linderos de la lengua. Ideologias linguisticas en los Andes, Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos/Instituto Frances de Estudios Andinos/Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (2007) and Kawsay Vida. A Multimedia Quechua Course for Beginners and Beyond, Austin, TX, University of Texas Press (2013). Her interests are wide-ranging, including: Quechua storytelling performance; the grammar of evidence in Quechua narrative; the relationship between language, identity and power in multilingual Latin America; indigenous language politics and social movements; state language policy and its implementation; indigenous translators and interpreters as linguistic human rights activists. 

Research Interests

I work on issues of language, identity and power in the Andean states of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, where linguistic diversity maps onto social inequality and discrimination in many ways. I use analytical tools from critical sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and anthropological linguistics to tackle the range of topics I have researched and published on. These include Quechua storytelling and oral history; human-non-human relations in Quechua cosmology; indigenous language and education policy in the Andes; language ideological perspectives on Quechua-Spanish contact; language and cultural identity; translation and ´misrecognition´ in postcolonial contexts; language rights legislation, policy and implementation; the indigenous interpreter as broker of human rights, women´s rights and indigenous rights; interactive multimedia technology for the teaching of Quechua in its cultural context.

I have recently retired from my full-time position at 缅北禁地 and am continuing my research as Professor Emerita in the School of Modern Languages. 

Other Expertise

Latin American indigenous social movements; Latin American government policy on multiculturalism.

Current Work

My current work has arisen out of two collaborative research projects funded by the AHRC under their Translating Cultures theme:

Project 1 (2014-2016) Principle Investigator. ´The legislated mediation of indigenous language rights in Peru´. (Co-investigators Raquel de Pedro, Heriot-Watt University; Luis Andrade (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú). This project examines the Peruvian´s states implementation of new legislation in support of the language rights of indigenous people, against a backdrop where infringements of human rights have often arisen, in part, due to the communicative breach between Spanish speaking officialdom and indigenous language-speaking communities. On the basis of first-hand research with the collaboration of Peru´s Ministry of Culture, we engage critically with the challenges that mediated bilingual and multilingual communication poses in a postcolonial context where historical asymmetries between languages and cultures still apply. We examine in particular the state-sponsored training of bilingual indigenous people as translators and interpreters, to provide this service in the public sector, including justice, health and prior consultation processes. We address both written translation from Spanish into languages with a primarily oral tradition and interpreting in scenarios that are characterised by a clash of cultural and communicative codes. See Publications for 2018 items arising from this project and our website .

Project 2 (2018-2019) Co-Investigator. ´Improving women´s lives: the work of grassroots bilingual mediators of indigenous language rights´. (Principal investigator Raquel de Pedro, University of Stirling; Co-Investigator Luis Andrade (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; Project Partner, Raquel Reynoso, Servicios Educativos Rurales). This project examines the role that female indigenous leaders in the southern Peruvian Andes play in facilitating communication between members of their communities who predominantly speak Quechua and Aymara (usually women and elderly people), on the one hand, and Spanish speaking public servants working in sectors such as justice, health and education, on the other. The role of these ad hoc ´social interpreters´, or ´companions´ as they refer to themselves, is often crucial in ensuring access to human rights. Our project seeks to enhance their visibility, empowering the women leaders as well as the people who benefit from their work. We have done this by innovative means: helping them to create a piece of testimonial theatre that dramatizes the work of the social interpreter, and an audio-visual exhibition that presents the issues to the general public. See these links for further information ; .

I am also involved in endangered language research, preparing an audio dictionary of an undocumented Quechua dialect of Peru’s Upper Marañón valley, in collaboration with native speakers and linguistics students at the Catholic University of Peru in Lima.

Research Roles

Chair of Hispanic Studies, School of Modern Languages; Director of 缅北禁地 Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Postgraduate Supervision

University of Liverpool PhDs (1991-2005)

Timothy Marr: ‘Language shift among Quechua migrants to Lima, Peru’, ESRC

Janet Lloyd: ‘Ecuador’s indigenous organisations and the international NGO’, ESRC

Neil Pyper: ‘Street children and education in Lima, Peru’, Faculty Studentship

Pedro Plaza: ‘Language, education and power in the Bolivian bilingual classroom’, ORS

Sally Evans: ‘Indigenous plant medicine among the Quichua of lowland Ecuador’, ESRC

缅北禁地 PhDs (2006-2019)

Claire Donneky: ‘Language planning for minority language groups in France and Spain’, Faculty Studentship, completed

Ximena Córdova: 'The performance of identity in the Carnival of Oruro, Bolivia', AHRC, completed

Josep Cru: ‘Maya language revitalization and revalorisation in Yucatan, Mexico’, Institut Ramon Llull, completed

Fernando Gonzalez: ‘Tourism and discourses about place and identity in Northern Peru’, Faculty Studentship, completed

Sarah Bennison: ‘Cultural meanings of water in Huarochiri province, Peru, AHRC, completed

Antonia Manresa: ‘Intercultural education among Quichua communities in lowland Ecuador’, ESRC, completed

Stefan Rzedzian, ‘The rights of mother earth in Ecuador’s legislation’, ESRC, completed

Miriam Liggins, ´Quechua literacy and intergenerational transmission of knowledge in highland Peru´, ESRC, in progress

• De Pedro R, Howard R, Reynoso R, Andrade L. . Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 2021, 16(1), 63-84.
• Howard RE. . In: Muñoz Morán O, ed. Andes. Ensayos de etnografía teórica. Madrid: NOLA Editores, 2020, pp.263-304.
• Howard R. . London: Routledge, 2022.
• Howard R. Language ideologies in the Andes. In: Matthias Urban, ed. Guide to the Languages of the Central Andes. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. In Preparation.
• Howard R. . Bolivian Studies Journal 2019, 25, 147-169.
• Andrade L, Howard R, Pedro R. . In: Marleen Haboud; Azucena Palacios, ed. Lenguas en contacto: desafíos en la diversidad. Quito: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador Press, 2019, pp.513-554.
• Howard R. . In: Aikhenvald A, ed. Oxford Handbook of Evidentiality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, pp.222-242.
• Andrade L, Howard R, Pedro R. . Indiana 2018, 35(1), 139-163.
• DePedro R, Andrade L, Howard R. . In: Esther Monzó Nebot and Juan Jiménez Salcedo, ed. Translating and Interpreting Justice in a Postmonolingual Age. Delaware: Vernon Press, 2018, pp.91-109.
• Howard R, Andrade Ciudad L, de Pedro Ricoy R. . Amerindia: Revue d'Ethnolinguistique Amérindienne 2018, 40(1), 219-245.
• Howard R, Pedro Ricoy R de, Andrade L. . International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2018, 251, 19-36.
• de Pedro Ricoy R, Howard R, Andrade Ciudad L. . Meta: Journal des traducteurs / Meta: Translators' Journal 2018, 63(1), 160-177.
• Pedro R, Howard R, Andrade L. . Target 2018, 30(2), 187-211.
• Haboud M, Howard R, Cru J, Freeland J. . In: Coronel-Molina SM; McCarty TL, ed. Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Americas. New York & London: Routledge, 2016, pp.181-223.
• Howard RE. . Austin, TX, USA: University of Texas Press, 2013.
• Howard R. . Pragmatics and Society 2012, 3(2), 243-269.
• Howard R. The Quechua languages in the Andes today: between statistics, the state and daily life. In: Paul Heggarty & Adrian Pearce, ed. History and Language in the Andes. London: Palgrave, 2011, pp.185-213.
• Howard R. . Latin American Perspectives 2010, 37(3), 176-194.
• Howard R. . In: Carlin, E.B., van de Kerke, S, ed. Linguistics and Archaeology in the Americas: The Historization of Language and Society. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010, pp.123-145.
• Howard R. . Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 2009, 4(1), 17-46.
• Howard R. . International Journal of Educational Development 2009, 29(6), 583-593.
• Howard R. . In: Süselbeck, K; Mühlschlegel, U; Masson, P, ed. Lengua, nación e identidad. La regulación del plurilingüismo en España y América Latina. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana Vervuert Verlag, 2008, pp.367-386.
• Howard R. . Lima: Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos / Instituto de Estudios Peruanos / Fondo Editorial Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2007.
• Howard R. . In: Dransart, P, ed. Kay Pacha: Cultivating Earth and Water in the Andes. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2006, pp.Chapter 24.
• Howard R. . In: Granqvist, RJ, ed. Writing Back in/and Translation. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2006, pp.39-53.
• Howard R. . In: Hart, S; Rowe, W, ed. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies: Studies in Latin American Literature and Culture in Honour of James Higgins. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2005, pp.159-172.
• Howard R. . International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2004, 2004(167), 95-118.
• Howard R. . In: Higgins, J, ed. Heterogeneidad y literatura en el Peru. Lima: Centro de Estudios Literarios Antonio Cornejo Polar, 2003, pp.127-155.
• Howard R. . In: Stobart, H; Howard, R, ed. Knowledge and Learning in the Andes: Ethnographic Perspectives. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2002, pp.17-39.
• Stobart H, Howard R. . Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2002.
• Howard R. . In: Urton, G; Quilter, J, ed. Narrative Threads: Accounting and Recounting in Andean Khipu. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2002, pp.26-49.
• Howard-Malverde R. Pautas teóricas y metodológicas para el estudio de la historia oral andina contemporánea. In: Juan Carlos Godenzzi, ed. Tradición oral andina y amazónica. Métodos de análisis e interpretación de textos. Cuzco & Cochabamba: Centro “Bartolomé de las Casas” & PROEIBANDES, 1999, pp.339-385.
• Howard-Malverde Rosaleen. . International Journal of Educational Development 1998, 18(3), 181-196.
• Howard-Malverde Rosaleen. Words for Our Lord of Huanca: discursive strategies in a Quechua sermon from Southern Peru. Anthropological Linguistics 1998, 40(4), 570-595.
• Howard-Malverde Rosaleen, ed. Creating Context in Andean Cultures. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
• Howard-Malverde R. Introduction: between text and context in the evocation of culture. In: Rosaleen Howard-Malverde, ed. Creating Context in Andean Cultures. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, pp.3-18.
• Howard-Malverde R. La interculturalidad vivida. Testimonios de mujeres desde el Norte de Potosí, Bolivia. In: Juan Godenzzi Alegre, ed. Educación e interculturalidad en los Andes y la Amazonía. Cuzco: Centro “Bartolomé de las Casas”, 1996.
• Howard-Malverde Rosaleen. ”Pachamama is a Spanish word:” linguistic tension between Aymara, Quechua and Spanish in Northern Potosí (Bolivia). Anthropological Linguistics 1995, 37(2), 141-168.
• Howard-Malverde R, Canessa A. The school in the Quechua and Aymara communities of highland Bolivia. International Journal of Educational Development 1995, 15(3), 231-243.
• Howard-Malverde R. “La gente más bien hace guerra con los cuentos”: estrategias narrativas en una comunidad quechua del Perú central. In: Margot Beyersdorff & S. Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz, ed. Andean Oral Traditions: Discourse and Literature/Tradiciones Orales Andinas: Discurso y Literatura. Bonn: Holos, 1994, pp.117-135.
• Howard-Malverde Rosaleen. The Speaking of History. "Willapaakushayki" or Quechua Ways of Telling the Past. London: Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, 1990.
• Howard-Malverde R. Upa. La conceptualisation de la parole et du silence dans la construction de l'identité quechua. Journal de la Société des Américanistes de Paris 1990, 76, 105-120.
• Howard-Malverde R. Storytelling strategies in Quechua narrative performance. Journal of Latin American Lore 1989, 15(2), 3-71.
• Howard-Malverde R. Talking about the past: tense and testimonials in Quechua narrative discourse. Amerindia. Revue d'Ethnolinguistique Amerindienne 1988, 13, 125-155.
• Howard-Malverde R. The achkay, the cacique and the neighbour: oral tradition and talk in San Pedro de Pariarca. Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Etudes Andines 1986, 15(3-4), 1-34.
• Howard-Malverde R. Dyablu: its meanings in Cañar quichua oral narrative. Amerindia. Revue d'Ethnolinguistique Amerindienne 1984, 9, 49-78.
• Howard-Malverde R, Bonnier E, Rozenberg C, Kaplan L. Recherches archéologiques, paléobotaniques et ethnolinguistiques dans une vallée du Haut Marañón (Pérou): le Projet Tantamayo-Piruru. Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines 1983, 12(1-2), 103-133.
• Howard-Malverde Rosaleen. Dioses y diablos : tradición oral de Cañar, Ecuador / textos quichuas recogidos y traducidos. Paris: Association d’Ethnolinguistique Amérindienne, CNRS, 1981.