Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity: Language, Culture, Identity

Jacqueline Knörr, Ph.D. 1994, Habilitation 2006, is Head of Research Group and Extraordinary Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Her publications and research focus on identity and difference, politics and policies in postcolonial contexts of diversity, nation-building, creolization and pidginization, childhood, gender, and migration. Her most recent monograph is Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia, 2014.Wilson Trajano Filho, Ph.D. (1998), University of Pennsylvania, is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Brasília. He has published widely on West Africa and Brazil, including The Powerful Presence of the Past (with J. Knörr), Brill, 2010.Contributors are: Eric A. Anchimbe, Maarten Bedert, Jan Blommaert, Juliana Braz Dias, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Christine Jourdan, Jacqueline Knörr, Christoph Kohl, Mariana Kriel, Andréa Lobo, Friederike Lüpke, Anaïs Ménard, William P. Murphy, Francis Njubi Nesbitt, Richard Price, Sally Price, Wilson Trajano Filho, Kristian Van Haesendonck, and Kees van der Waal.

Creolization and pidginization are conceptualized and investigated as specific social processes in the course of which new common languages, socio-cultural practices and identifications are developed in contexts of postcolonial diversity shaped by distinct social, historical and local conditions.