"Culture is localized in concrete, publicly accessible signs, the most important of which are actually occurring instances of discourse."--Greg Urban

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I’m excited to share the news that "Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles" has just been published! Order your copy today! mnmpress.org/?p=allBooks&id…

Morning reading Francesca Merlan Jawoyn trickster stories of Southern Arnhem Land

Call for Special Issue Proposals: Issue 44(1) - The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology Info: ow.ly/Xu4P50Tx3iv

Evening reading, The Women are Up to Something And if Raymond Firth was impressive for publishing a book at 90, Mary Midgley published her last book when she was 99 (long out living Geertz who had critiqued her in his anti-anti-Relativism paper)

What university wouldn't want a promoter of racist pseudoscience speaking on their campus? Next stop will probably be the university of austin theguardian.com/us-news/2024/s…

This must be one of the reasons why he tried to get rid of Denali and rename it McKinley

Francesca Merlan and Alan Rumsey's Ku Waru: Language and Segmentary Politics in the western Nebilyer Valley, Papua New Guinea is still a good read

The problem with assigning this paper by Graham is that most grad students don't know who napoleon chagnon was anymore, they often do know who Davi Yanomami is, so chagnon is further diminished & they get no sense of how famous chagnon once was, he's just another forgotten anthro

Autumn, Digby Neck Maud Lewis c. 1962

Thanks for everything apnews.com/article/kris-k…

Calm

Somebody should probably let sociology know that a promoter of racist pseudoscience is the "second most important sociologist" according to some anonymous troll on Twitter

Fun read, both on the history of archaeology and also on the anthropology department at SIUC Prophet, Pariah, and Pioneer: Walter W. Taylor and Dissension in American Archaeology

And the mist

Tomorrow in my graduate seminar

"We are rarely informed about the structure of the discourse through which knowledge is produced, conceived, transmitted, and acquired--by members of societies and by researchers"--Joel Sherzer and Greg Urban

Osprey

October Gold Franklin Carmichael 1922