Dra. Ebany Dohle

Julio / 2021

Presentation topic:

"Language, Indigenous Identity, and TEK: the case of Nahuat-Pipil"

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An exploration of the relationship between language, traditional knowledge, indigenous identity, and history in the Nahuat-Pipil context of El Salvador. This talk will present an interdisciplinary perspective of the different elements that contribute to the formation of a unified identity for Nahuat-Pipil speakers of El Salvador by looking at how traditional knowledge is encoded and lexically categorized within language set against the backdrop of violent and colonial history. 

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Ebany Dohle, PhD in Linguistics, SOAS, University of London. Her main research interests include investigating how knowledge of the natural world is encoded in the Náhuat-Pipil language of El Salvador and how this shapes semantic, lexical and cognitive categorization processes. She has also investigated traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) as a factor in the conceptualization of indigenous identity for the Nahuat-Pipil. Her methods are highly interdisciplinary and she incorporates elements of ethnobotany, anthropology, architecture, art, and oral histories into her language documentation efforts. Ebany has field experience in South East Asia, Europe and Central America. She is also a director of Language Landscape, a language mapping tool.

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