At the AAA meetings in Tampa, spreading the word about Anthropological Linguistics, with old friends and new ones.

It’s #ReadPalestine Week! 🇵🇸📚

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The Oxford Handbook of Ritual Language has been published in the UK, and can be ordered now! It features 24 chapters and a cover (drawn by a young artist, my daughter Eva). You can preorder it for your library or for the language nerd in your holiday list. global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Buena tunda en Jacobin a "América del Norte", novela de Nicolás Medina Mora (hijo de Eduardo Medina Mora) y editor en Nexos. El título: "The Great Whitexican Novel". jacobin.com/2024/12/whitex…

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

My new edited volume, The Oxford Handbook of Ritual Language, is now out in the US and Europe! It features case studies from language groups and societies in the Americas, the Middle East, the Pacific & S Asia. If interested, use the discount code-or ask your library to order it!

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

The new issue of Anthropological Linguistics is out! As always, its articles provide a deep exploration of languages and sociocultural domains—this time, North America, North Africa, and Indonesia. And it is on open access, so feel free to read and share. muse.jhu.edu/issue/53757

🏆 Honored to announce that "Rethinking Zapotec Time" has received a FOURTH prize: the 2025 Latin American Studies Association Best Book in Colonial Latin American Studies, awarded by LASA Colonial! Interested in buying/adopting it? U Texas Press may print a paperback edition.

Come hear some wonderful new work on Indigenous Humanism in the colonial Americas! Our LASA panel will be on Saturday at 12pm (Marriott Marquis, Foothill B), and, as shown below, I am in very good company!

At LASA San Francisco: Rubén Sánchez-Godoy announces Best Colonial Book Prize (Rethinking Zapotec Time); session expertly organized by Amber Brien; photos w/Bancroft Library curator José Barragán-Álvarez and w/Beatriz Herrera (Vassar ‘07) Senior Trainer, UC Berkeley Labor Center.

One more conference before summer begins: A Society for Linguistic Anthropology panel with presentations drawn from my recent edited volume, The Oxford Handbook of Ritual Language (2024), by an amazing group of colleagues. Come see us in Chicago, if you are around!

A few images from our panel at the Society for Linguistic Anthropology meeting in Chicago (thanks, Kristina, Jennifer, Margaret, Sean, and Morgan!). 350+ participants show the growth and reach if the field!

Here is a book review (my 43rd, and counting), of a recent work in my field: On "Aztec Antichrist," by Ben Leeming, Journal of Religion 105 (3): 403-404.

Honored to discuss my work with former student Alberto Wilson, Assistant Professor of History TCU (Vassar '16) in a Latine Heritage Month Conversation featuring the award-winning Rethinking Zapotec Time: □ Sunday, Sept 14, 1pm EST □ Register here: lnkd.in/ekuUZ-gZ

The new issue of Anthropological Linguistics, 64:4, is out! You may use the Project Muse link below to read exciting new scholarship by Andrew Garrett, Julie Marsault, Morgan Siewert, and Tony Webster: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55603

Ya inicia el coloquio y escuela doctoral “Translatio: Adaptaciones, transformaciones y traducciones en las Américas y Asia, s.XVII-XVIII”, organizado por Sonia Rose (U Toulouse), con el apoyo de Iván Escamilla (UNAM) y Jean-Noël Sanchez (U Strasbourg). ¡Nos vemos en Toulouse!