Roasted chicken and the motorpark

The ways in which the living could present themselves in less liminal contexts, such as in offices, hospitals and urban spaces, were significantly shaped by the ways in which they wanted to sound to others. Experiences of marginalization and the loss of land and sovereignty resulted in creative ways of sounding like Others and of mimetically interpreting foreignness and subjugation. Stories told about how phonology of a language, such as Hone, was not simply a system of meaningful sounds help to understand that it was instead about creating an inventory of ways to mask and unmask places of origin, social class and experiences of inequality in the social history of a diverse community.