Anthropology News Article by Netta Avineri, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey; Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein, Independent Scholar; Robin Conley, Marshall University; Mariam Durrani, University of… Read More »AN News: “Silent Meditation: Speech, power, and social justice” by the Committee on Language & Social Justice
The American Anthropological Association has passed a resolution condemning the use of Native American mascots unless appropriate consultation has taken place. The move comes in… Read More »AAA Sports Mascot resolution
Anthropology News Article On November 24, 2014, St Louis prosecutor McCulloch announced that the grand jury trial did not indict Officer Darren Wilson for the… Read More »AN News: “Digital Counterpublics: Black Twitter in the Aftermath of Ferguson” by Mariam Durrani (University of Pennsylvania)
The submission deadline is November 6, 2015. Created and awarded for the first time by the SLA in 2014, this award honors an SLA member… Read More »Call for Nominations: SLA Award for Public Outreach and Community Service
Edward Sapir Book Prize 2015 Submission Deadline: May 15, 2015 The Edward Sapir Book Prize was established in 2001 and is awarded to a book… Read More »Edward Sapir Book Prize 2015 – Open for Submissions
Want to make a difference with your work beyond your undergraduate transcript? Submit to SLA’s Annual Student Essay Contest! Selected winner will be awarded $500,… Read More »Announcing SLA’s Annual *Undergraduate* Essay Contest
Announcing the SLA’s Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize The Society for Linguistic Anthropology would like to invite submissions of graduate student papers for the SLA’s Annual… Read More »Announcing the SLA’s Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize
Annie Claus’s essay, “How a professional writer improved my academic writing” at Savage Minds is quite useful. She counsels academics to resist overly long sentences,… Read More »However, anthropologists do over-use some words
The Journal of Linguistic Anthropology is the primary publication of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology. This web site features a variety of information about the… Read More »Spotlight: Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
A report on Fox News intimates that a course using Jane Hill’s Everyday Language of White Racism is problematic. It is not clear from the… Read More »Everyday Language of White Racism in the news
Dear SLA Colleagues, We are writing to encourage you to consider nominating yourself for one of two open SLA positions in the 2015 AAA elections.… Read More »SLA Nominations 2015
The January 7th attacks in France caused great sadness, anger, and fear. They also occasioned outpourings of support, and analyses of what went wrong. Some… Read More »Religious terrorism is sadly not unique
AAA 2015 Conference Theme: “Familiar/Strange” Casting common sense in new light by making the familiar seem strange and the strange seem familiar is a venerable… Read More »AAA Executive Program Committee Call for Submissions
In the latest SLA column at Anthropology News Anna Babel discusses how being a near-native speaker of Spanish complicates her role as insider/outsider in Bolivia.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2014 Society for Linguistic Anthropology prizes. See the full list of this year’s prize winners, plus past years’ winners… Read More »2014 SLA Prize winners
The latest SLA column at Anthropology News is now available. Shunsuke Nozawa’s “Contact and Its Allure” explores phatic communion, isolation and social relations, the role… Read More »Anthropology News: Contact and Its Allure
Japanese media use the label “Lehman shock” to refer to the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent shocks. The phrase “financial crisis” occurred frequently in 2008… Read More »Shock. Lehman shock.
(1) The AAA Committee on Ethics Small Grants Program: The goal of the AAA Small Grants Program is to foster the development and use of… Read More »AAA Committee on Ethics *Call for Submissions*
The latest SLA column in Anthropology News is now available! “Scales of Repair,” authored by Eve Danziger, Mark Sicoli, and Brook Hefright http://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2014/10/14/scales-of-repair/
This year’s list of language-related panels and activities at the American Anthropological Association’s Annual Meeting, to be held December 3-7 in Washington, DC