You have to imagine it’s delivered with a kind of awed conviction.

It’s a good example of a very common and terrible misuse of data. It’s not active disinformation, just awful design.

None of this is relevant to the NYPost story, which is a combo of “monolinguals don’t know anything about comparative kin terms” and “racists don’t know anything about non-white communities”. And, of course, “can we find a story about Mamdani that makes him not look like an absolute hero?”

In Chinese, part of this specificity has to do with patrilineality, whereas Thai society is more loose (some areas were matrilineal, whereas elite groups and official records today are patrilineal).

I don’t know how one refers to a general family friend in eg Cantonese. In Thai, there are different terms for mother’s and father’s side, and you generally use mother’s side terms for people who are not blood relations. Ta/yai, lung/pa, na, phi, nong for grandparent, auntie, young auntie, siblings.

I expect an additional chapter.

Presterudstuen and Mursharbash’s “monster anthropology,” also Michael Dylan Foster’s pandemonium on parade

We have two positions opening at Stockholm University in anthropology.