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18/05/08
"Dreamtime" no longer an acceptable term
The West Australian and South Australian education departments have made lists of appropriate and inappropriate words to describe Aboriginal people and culture, The Australian reports.- Dreamtime is no longer an acceptable term to describe the collec… more »
04/04/08
12:21:26, by Lorenz 
. Categories: language, inuit, Native American, Arctic / Northern Regions, history Discovered the first-ever linguistic link between Siberia and Canada
While studying an ancient language now spoken by only a few hundred people in a remote corner of Siberia, linguist Edward Vajda has found the first-ever linguistic link between the Old World and any First Nation in Canada, the Ottawa Citizen reports. "T… more »
28/03/08
"Putting Aboriginal languages on the curriculum has improved 'race' relations"
He's not an aboriginal Australian. Nevertheless he has to learn the local indigenous language. He and many other children say it's fun. Teachers, parents and linguists say it is improving self-esteem, literacy and school attendance, rescuing indigenous l… more »
28/08/07
00:37:45, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, culture traditions, language, Native American, Arctic / Northern Regions, internet, websites New website helps save Kenai Peoples language (Alaska)
Their language is nearly dead. Maybe a new website can revitalize Kahtnuht'ana Qenaga: The Kenai Peoples Language in Alaska? For more than two years, the two anthropologists Alan Boraas and Michael Christian have taken pictures, navigated through HTML an… more »
04/07/07
13:43:50, by Lorenz . Categories: language, inuit, anthropology (general), Arctic / Northern Regions Inuit language thrives in Greenland
In the 1960s and 1970s, elders in Greenland feared their language would be lost. Today, the vast majority of Greenlanders - 92 per cent - are fluent in their native tongue. Inuit language thrives in Greenland, Nunatsiaq News reports:
You can find a co… more »
06/06/07
01:15:34, by Lorenz . Categories: language, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia Six reasons for bad academic writing
Sociologist Lars Laird Eriksen has written an interesting blog post about why academic texts often are so badly written. When academics try to write, it often becomes so full of jargon and it's a turture for the reader. So why is this so?
Here's his… more »
02/04/06
23:49:46, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, technology, culture traditions, Us and Them, globalisation, language, books New Ethnography: The Deaf People - A Forgotten Cultural Minority
It is insufficient to understand deaf people as disabled. Most deaf people rather see themselves as members of a cultural and linguistic minority. They are proud of their culture. And they face identity obstacles similar to those faced by many other mino… more »
20/10/05
A new word For June - or: When is the Arctic no longer the Arctic?
Long story in the International Herald Tribune about climate change in the Arctic, sinking cities, unhappy reindeers, emaciated looking polar bears, walruses trying to climb onto white boats, mistaking them for ice floes and seasoned hunters who have bee… more »
27/05/05
Dance Anthropology: "Even when borders blur, dance movements retain ethnic roots"
SanDiego.com Union TribuneThe way we move tells us who we are. The rhythm of our walk, the sports we play and our dances define us as individuals and cultures. Movement also can cross borders. That makes modern dance a stunning example of global comm… more »
20/03/05
Book review: Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
Martin Jacques, The Guardian
There are many ways of recounting the history of the world - via the rise and fall of civilisations, the fortunes of nation states, socio-economic systems and patterns, the development of technology, or the chronology of w… more »
08/03/05
First Swahili PC office suite released in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Wikinews
The office suite was translated from the English version of OpenOffice.org, an open source suite based on Sun Microsystems' StarOffice. This is the first ever release of a word processor in Swahili. The translation effort required translating… more »
06/03/05
Knowledge Fades As Africa Languages Die
Sun-Sentinel / AP
A U.N. Conference on Trade and Development report on protecting traditional knowledge argues that beyond a devastating impact on culture, the death of a language wipes out centuries of know-how in preserving ecosystems -- leading to… more »
27/02/05
23:38:45, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Latin- and Central America, language, Native American, media UPDATED - The future lies behind: How languages reflect our conception of time
Laura Spinney, The Guardian
For the Aymara people living in the Andes, the past lies ahead and the future lies behind. The Aymara word for past is transcribed as nayra , which literally means eye, sight or front. The word for future is q"ipa , which t… more »
22/02/05
21:12:38, by Lorenz . Categories: Asia, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, language, anthropology (general) Dissertation in Anthropology put online before it will be published as a book
Anthropologist P. Kerim Friedman (Temple University) published his dissertation on the web before it will be published as a book! "No need to wait for the book", he writes. In an earlier post, Friedman encouraged anthropologists to use the Internet to sh… more »
13/02/05
Instant Messaging - Studying A New Form of Communication
Susan D Blum, U Notre Dame, Anthropology News, American Anthropological Association
Teaching an upper-division undergraduate class on linguistic anthropology, “Doing Things with Words,” at the University of Notre Dame, nothing got my students so excit… more »
03/02/05
Study: Negative Words Dominate Language
ABC News
Robert Schrauf, associate professor of applied linguistics and an anthropologist at Penn State, says he was a bit puzzled when he began analyzing data he collected that shows that regardless of age or culture, we have far more words in our vo… more »
24/11/04
New Compendium on Yanomami Language and Culture
IPS News
After 15 years of research, ”we have concentrated our efforts on producing something more useful and rich in information than a simple dictionary -- a book that can support the didactic measures that the Venezuelan society and state have the… more »
21/11/04
16:25:08, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, culture traditions, language, inuit, anthropology (general) Urban Legends: Do Eskimos really have 100 words for snow?
i have a phoenix - Reviews by a librarian
Everyone thinks the Eskimos have 100-plus words for snow. Everyone is wrong. They don't. In the book The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, Pinker writes:
"Where did the myth come from? Not f… more »
14/11/04
22:43:01, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, technology, culture traditions, Africa, language, inuit Modern technology revives traditional languages
Two articles that both have been published some days ago:
ETHIOPIA: Old alphabet adapted for modern use in technology
ADDIS ABABA, 11 Nov 2004 (IRIN) - One of the world’s oldest living alphabets could make its debut soon on mobile phones, Ethiopi… more »
23/10/04
Identity Issues in Mongolia - or The Meaning of Surnames
Los Angeles Times / Yahoo
ULAN BATOR, Mongolia — School principal Baast chose the name "Nomad" in keeping with his wandering spirit. Defense Minister Gurragchaa — the only Mongolian to venture into space — settled on "Cosmos." And anthropology student… more »
15/10/04
A secret writing system used only by women in China's Hunan province
The Straits Times Asia
MADAM Yang Huanyi, 98, died in a remote part of China's Hunan province last month. There was nothing unusual about her death, except that she was the last person on Earth who had mastered a secret writing system used only by wom… more »
20/09/04
Universal children's sign language gives new insights into how languages evolve
BBC
A new sign language created over the last 30 years by deaf children in Nicaragua has given experts a unique insight into how languages evolve. The language follows many basic rules common to all tongues, even though the children were not taught th… more »
20/08/04
09:38:14, by Lorenz . Categories: Latin- and Central America, language, Native American, persons and theories Researchers claim to have solved the mystery of the people who don't count
The Guardian
The Piraha of the Amazon have almost legendary status in language research. They have no words at all for number. They use only only three words to count: one, two, many. To make things confusing, the words for one and two, in Piraha, are… more »
22/07/04
Music and Socitiety in South Africa - Interview with Jonny Clegg
allAfrica.com
"I came from a country that forbade the mixing of culture, through cultural segregation and other enforced laws, so I was immediately attracted to the other side. Anthropology was a natural continuation of an interest I developed at the… more »
05/07/04
Saving native languages
University of Berkeley News
Chochenyo, the language of the Muwekma Ohlone people, has been silent since the 1930s, but a handful of tribal members working with mentors from the University of California, Berkeley's linguistics department are bringing i… more »
16/05/04
Tricky body language
Indiana Gazette
"A native who held his chin in his hand was exhibiting an intent listening position - called 'wisakatu. It was never interpreted that he was bored", said anthropology professor Thomas D. Blakely after many years of fieldwork in Africa… more »
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