Jenny L. Davis is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is also the director of the Native American and Indigenous Languages (NAIL) Lab and affiliated faculty in the American Indian Studies and Gender and Women's Studies Departments. Her co-edited volume Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language, Gender, and Sexuality won the Association for Queer Anthropology's Ruth Benedict Prize in 2014.
"Davis's book presents an optimistic view of the role that emergent
ethnolinguistic identities might play in the future of urban and
reservation Chickasaw communities."--Tarren Andrews, Language in
Society "One of the many strengths of this book lies in the depth
and breadth of the theoretical expertise brought to bear by the
author combined with the intimacy of the relationship she has with
the language and community, a hallmark of Native
ethnography."--Jocelyn C. Ahlers, Linguistic Society of America
"Scholars and students interested in the important work of language
revitalization and the equally important topic of language and
identity will find Talking Indian to be an instructive and
indispensable contribution to this emerging field."--Paul V.
Kroskrity, editor of Telling Stories in the Face of Danger:
Language Renewal in Native American Communities
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