anthony k webster🐿

Meeting with students today to talk about my first book, I had to remind myself about what I'd said in 2009

Back home again in Indiana

Morning frost

Morning light over the pond

If you happen to be in Oxford, OH today

Rural Indiana

"Students at classical academies do not generally learn Latin or Greek...ancient Greek and Roman authors comprise only a small portion of the material studied...'classical,' then, serves not so much to describe this style of education as promote it"--Curtis Dozier

Morning reading, Kenneth Burke is always fascinating, and this collection of reviews, from Austin to Kermode to Warren, is rather entertaining

Also, for those who have never read the version from Bright's Sociolinguistics, there's a lovely comment by Myles Dillon of a story Mrs Yeats told him about Lady Gregory and whom one should invite for tea versus lunch versus dinner in Irish society

Among the many things one learns reading Paul Friedrich's analysis of the use of pronominals in Russian novels, is just how much subtlety is lost in translations into English

"The central idea of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is that language functions not simply as a device for reporting experience, but also, and more significantly as a way of defining experience for its speakers"--Harry Hoijer

Looking forward to seeing Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Jake Skeets here at UT Austin

Always nice to see the wonderful things my students are doing

Ice and pines

Rex Lee Jim Poetry Reading YouTube video by utlibraries

That time Rex Lee Jim read at the Poetry Center at UT Austin

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Former Navajo Nation Vice President Rex Lee Jim dies at 63 - Navajo Times Former Navajo Nation Vice President Rex Lee Jim, a naat’áanii, poet and hataałii who spoke eloquently in Diné Bizaad, has died. He was 63.

"Former Navajo Nation Vice President Rex Lee Jim, a naat’áanii, poet and hataałii who spoke eloquently in Diné Bizaad, has died. He was 63."

navajotimes.com/reznews/form...

Dialogues: anthropology and literature

Siddratul Muntaha Jillani, Kiran Nazir Ahmed, Liliana Colanzi, Jessica Sequeira, Elisa Taber, Rex Lee Jim, Anthony K. Webster, Najet Adouani, and Andrew Brandel
Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute

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In 2000, Rex Lee Jim had the idea for me to do research on Navajo poetry. In 2006, I published this short paper on one of his poems. And for 26 years, he and I kept talking about poetry and other things. He was a poet's poet's poet. His poetry lives on.

www.jstor.org/stable/20739...

Postdoctoral Fellow - Native American and Indigenous Studies Job Posting Title: Postdoctoral Fellow - Native American and Indigenous Studies ---- Hiring Department: College of Liberal Arts ---- Position Open To: All Applicants ---- Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40 --...

If anyone is interested in spending some time at UT Austin next year as a postdoctoral fellow, follow the link below:
Postdoctoral Fellow - Native American and Indigenous Studies
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Evening reading, Sean O'Neill's Culture Contact and Linguistic Relativity Among the Indians of Northwestern California, a book in conversation with Edward Sapir, Alfred Kroeber, Pliny Goddard, Mary Haas, William Bright, Victor Golla, Harry Hoijer & Benjamin Lee Whorf. His talk tomorrow at UT Austin

At the Blanton

"When we become aware of our disease or of our hidden motives, we have already begun to get the better of them. What matters is the way in which we accept our motives and live through the ensuing crisis. This is the only chance we have of becoming different than the way we are"--Italo Calvino

The clouds hinting that winter is not yet over

"So much of what passes for science in the social sciences, including anthropology, derives directly and recognizably from the commonsense notions, the everyday premises of the culture in which and by which the scientist lives"--David Schneider

In 1984, David Schneider published a pointed critique of kinship theory in anthropology (A Critique of the Study of Kinship), where he argued that much kinship theory was full of smuggled in ethnocentric assumptions

Among the pines

Musee des Beaux Arts
W. H. Auden

About suffering they were never wrong,
The old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position: how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along

Anthropology News just published their latest issue, including a wonderful SLA column from Deina Rabie on Zohran Mamdani’s subversion of White public space in his recent mayoral campaign.

www.anthropology-news.org/articles/how...

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library Click on the title to browse this issue

Virtual Issue of Journal of Linguistic Anthropology

Ambivalence, Bivalency, and Ambiguity

Guest curator:
Sarah Muir

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The Right-Wingification of UT Continues • The Austin Chronicle Texas Republicans’ efforts to control what is taught at the University of Texas passed another milestone last week, as UT administrators announced that the school will consolidate its highly regarded ...

The right-wingification of UT continues as the school's leaders take “a giant leap backwards.”