A Navajo Poetry of Place
-Anthony K. Webster How sad it is that persons bent on debunking Native traditions in Alaska…have used linguistically naive variant spellings of Native place names… Read More »A Navajo Poetry of Place
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Seth Meyers “Boston Accent Trailer”
This segment from Late Night with Seth Meyers, “Boston Accent Trailer”, parodies Hollywood films set in Boston and their treatment of language. It comments humorously… Read More »Seth Meyers “Boston Accent Trailer”
Syllabus: Language and Colonialism
Syllabus for Janina Fenigsen’s 2010 graduate/undergraduate seminar, “Language and Colonialism”, at the University of Michigan Department of Anthropology
Star Trek and Wisdom Sits in Places
The Star Trek clip “Darmok” available on YouTube complements teaching Basso’s ethnography “Wisdom Sits in Places.”