First, to my American audience: Is upstate New York part of the mid-west? Specifically, are Rochester and Buffalo midwestern towns? I ask because Rocastrians I have talked to say ‘yes, we’re on the border but Buffalo is echt Midwest’, but the Buffalonians I talked to today denied this hotly.
Secondly, to my Australianist audience: tell me [...]
More translation today. No great earth-shattering discoveries, but plenty of stuff done.
25 new words to the dictionary, some of which have glosses, even.
5 new place names.
A nice list of booroo [clan estate] names. This was useful because I didn’t know for sure that all of them *are* clan estates, so that’s nice confirmation of their [...]
Now that things are reasonably official, it seems appropriate to announce that I will be leaving Rice at the end of this semester. I’m joining Yale’s linguistics department in the fall.
I’ve enjoyed my four years in Texas but moving back to New England will be good, too. I doubt, though, that New Haven can compete [...]
Apparently someone at the Houston Chronicle doesn’t quite understand the idea of pseudo-ethnography. It’s a “racially charged” way of “working through issues of race and class”? How about sticking with this as being a spoof on all those exoticisation ethnographies? And again, don’t forget to read the comments.
I’ve been in Taiwan for a week, at a joint workshop between Rice Linguistics and National Taiwan University’s Linguistics Department. All the faculty gave talks about their recent work and the Chairs signed a Memorandum of Understanding. We were exceptionally well looked after by our hosts: the food was awesome, the company great, and the [...]
Things White People Like.
Self-explanatory. Don’t forget the comments as meta-anthropology.
The blog silence has been caused by work. Specifically, I believe the technical term is “a bunch of cool stuff” which unfortunately happened to happen all at the same time. Don’t try and replicate my recent activities.
1) I’ve submitted a grant proposal for a cooperative effort in looking at the linguistics of hunter-gatherer communities. I’ve wanted [...]
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