Why Tséhootsooí Does Not Equal “Kit Carson Drive”: Reflections on Navajo Place Names and the Inequalities of Language

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Anthropological Linguistics Pub Date : 2018-10-18 DOI:10.1353/ANL.2017.0009

Anthony K. Webster

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Abstract

Abstract:This article reflects on the controversy in the Navajo Nation of changing the name of Kit Carson Drive to the Navajo place name Tséhootsooí. I outline the structure and use of traditional Navajo place names and then show that Navajo place names have had a renaissance in signage for shopping centers and elsewhere. I then detail the controversy over a proposal to change a street name in Fort Defiance. Place names are not neutral, but fully implicated in concerns about who has and does not have the right (and power) to name. In debates about linguistic relativity, questions of the inequalities of language need to be engaged.

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为什么Tséhootsooí不等于“基特卡森大道”:对纳瓦霍地名和语言不平等的反思

摘要：本文反映了纳瓦霍民族将Kit Carson Drive的名称改为纳瓦霍地名Tséhootsooí的争议。我概述了传统纳瓦霍地名的结构和使用，然后展示了纳瓦霍地名在购物中心和其他地方的标牌上的复兴。然后，我详细介绍了关于更改德法恩斯堡街道名称的提议引发的争议。地名不是中立的，但完全涉及到谁有权（和权力）命名的问题。在关于语言相对性的辩论中，需要涉及语言不平等的问题。

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Anthropological Linguistics Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Anthropological Linguistics, a quarterly journal founded in 1959, provides a forum for the full range of scholarly study of the languages and cultures of the peoples of the world, especially the native peoples of the Americas. Embracing the field of language and culture broadly defined, the editors welcome articles and research reports addressing cultural, historical, and philological aspects of linguistic study, including analyses of texts and discourse; studies of semantic systems and cultural classifications; onomastic studies; ethnohistorical papers that draw significantly on linguistic data; studies of linguistic prehistory and genetic classification.