Top Articles of 2019
Another year almost done! Sit back, relax, and read some of the most-clicked articles on the website in 2019. With thanks to …
The Verbal Art of Kichwa Reclamation
Ecuador’s Indigenous languages are varied and contested. What can poetry and curing chants tell us about the experience of language change and …
Rapping in Sakha
In Yakutsk, hip hop can be poetic, nostalgic, and even subversive. What can this inventive genre say about language relocalization and maintenance? …
The Joy of Dialects
What a froggy mystery in Papua New Guinea can teach us about the pleasure and power of language diversity. Polopuak—frog. Since 2010, …
Going Native…In Other Words
The “Going Native” cartoon for this issue of Anthropology News was an exercise in celebration of the International Year of Indigenous Languages, …
Language Lessons
A documentary film shows the challenges faced by Soli children as they learn in a language that is not their own. But …
Indigenous Languages through a Reclamation Lens
The United Nations’ International Year of Indigenous Languages is likely to reproduce the colonial logics that underlie dominant narratives of language disappearance …
Chris Ball on his book, Exchanging Words
https://unmpress.com/books/exchanging-words/9780826358530 Meghanne Barker: This book moves, part by part, from within the park to outside of it, until we end up in …
Communicating in Times of Crisis
What anthropologists can do to support asylum seekers and the interpreters who serve them. It started with people tagging me on Facebook …
Daniel Fisher on his book, The Voice and Its Doubles
https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-voice-and-its-doubles Interview by Georgia Ennis Georgia Ennis: Throughout your book, you follow both the imaginations and instantiations of an Aboriginal voice in radi…