I gave a talk about endangered languages and fieldwork in Northern Australia at UNT Denton on Monday. It was a lot of fun - a very lively department. I was talking about the Yan-nhaŋu project and some of the non-linguistic issues involved in doing fieldwork, especially the conundrum of how (and if) to do experimental-type [...]
My mate Joe has a fantastic description of one ethical way to record naturalistic conversation.
I’ve been meaning to finish this for ages so let me just tidy it up and post now.
I’m replying here to Language Hat’s comment about my removing my fieldwork blog (an extract):
Sounds like the unnamed, allegedly aggrieved party is hypersensitive and you have nothing to apologize for. If you feel you need to make changes [...]
Someone at Milingimbi was unhappy with my fieldwork diary so I’m taking down the posts from the summer until I have put in some changes. At that point they will go back up, but on this site rather than the blogs.rice.edu one. Let me mention in my own defense though that the unhappy party was [...]
If you’re not a regular reader of Savage minds, have a squizz at Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Ethnography and the IRB.
There are some interesting stories in the comments to the post (ignore my comments, you’ve heard me say such things before).
There’s a new book out on the Bradshaw* figures. The book is by Ian Wilson. There’s an ABC news article here, and a book review here. I was recently listening to an interview with Ian Wilson here. There is controversy on two counts: the claims that the artists responsible for the Bradshaw figures are not [...]
A report on Australian Indigenous Language Maintenance is out - the “National Indigenous Languages Survey Report” can be downloaded here. I’ve only just downloaded it myself so I’ll save comments until I have time to read the whole thing. I notice, though, that Bardi is listed as “critically endangered” (which I of course agree with) [...]
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