Singular They is Old, Singular They is New
(The Linguistic One stretches, blows the dust off this blog that has been sitting idle while we all deal with Life Things, and dives in to writing). In…
Author: Shulist (the Linguistic One)
Singular They is Old, Singular They is New
(The Linguistic One stretches, blows the dust off this blog that has been sitting idle while we all deal with Life Things, and dives in to writing). In…
Language, Accommodation, and the View from Whiteness
I want to take a minute to make a quick point about the underlying implications of several stories that have circulated in the media over the last couple…
Language, Accommodation, and the View from Whiteness
I want to take a minute to make a quick point about the underlying implications of several stories that have circulated in the media over the last couple…
Reflections on the AAA, Part 1: On Speculative Anthropology
Editor’s note: This year, two of our people (the Linguistic One and the Cultural One) went to the American Anthropology Association’s Annual Meeting in San Jose, California. This…
Reflections on the AAA, Part 1: On Speculative Anthropology
Editor’s note: This year, two of our people (the Linguistic One and the Cultural One) went to the American Anthropology Association’s Annual Meeting in San Jose, California. This…
The Underlying Hope of Anthropology: Reflecting on the Work of Jane Hill
This past week, the world of linguistic anthropology – and the world in general, though that world is presumably less conscious of the loss – lost a giant…
The Underlying Hope of Anthropology: Reflecting on the Work of Jane Hill
This past week, the world of linguistic anthropology – and the world in general, though that world is presumably less conscious of the loss – lost a giant…
On What Was Really Lost in the Fire
As everyone almost certainly knows by now, just over a week ago, the Brazilian Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro burned, with massive damage and the complete destruction…
On What Was Really Lost in the Fire
As everyone almost certainly knows by now, just over a week ago, the Brazilian Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro burned, with massive damage and the complete destruction…
Language is Social: A Quick, Slightly Angry, Introduction by Way of Media Response
A couple of articles have crossed my Twitter path in the last few days that are, from a linguistic anthropological perspective, shockingly ignorant. They come not from random…
Aggressively Human: An Anthropological Manifesto
A few months ago, I was talking to a group of students after class. One of them commented that they appreciated my openness about different things as a…