Isla
del Sol/Bolivia, 1962. During a research trip the linguist J.
C. Duenkel makes the groundbreaking discovery of a language
thought to be long dead. Fascinated by its peculiarly coarse
sound, the researcher begins to make recordings of the forgotten
idiom. Trujillo/Peru, 1968. Duenkel takes part in archaeological
excavations in the hope of finding correspondences between words
and matter. June 1969. Peru’s military government implements
a radical land reform. Duenkel and a group of friends and colleagues
move to a deserted area in the middle of Chan Chan.
The second toponymic journal is dedicated to the voice and
its relation to space. At the center of the journal are the
researcher J. C. Duenkel’s notebooks – published
here for the first time – and his praxis of geophysical
speech acts. In addition, selected essays examine the historical
dimension of expansionist rhetoric, of loss of language and
name.
The "Toponymisches Heft No. 2" is also available
in a German version.
(ISBN 978-3-940999-30-6)
Published so far
Nr. 1 „Das Trujillo-Syndrom“
(German)
Nr. 2 „Geophysik
der Stimme“ (German) / No. 2 „Geophysics of
the Voice“ (English)
Nr. 3 „Seismolologie“
(German) / No.3
Seismolology (English) |