anthony k webster🐿
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linguistic anthropologist, linguistic relativist, philologist, humanist, kayaker, tree grower, midwesterner, purdue alum
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The art of failure in translating a Navajo poem
The pun, or to use a more erudite, and perhaps more precise term – paronomasia, reigns over poetic art, and whether its rule is absolute or limited, poetry by definition is untranslatable.Roman Jak...
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If you're interested, for those that I don't know, here is a thread with some open access articles I've published on Navajo poets and poetry
The art of failure in translating a Navajo poem
journals.openedition.org/jsa/14602
The art of failure in translating a Navajo poem
journals.openedition.org/jsa/14602
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"The Singing Horseman" by Jack B. Yeats.
November 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
"The Singing Horseman" by Jack B. Yeats.
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Starved Rock State Park is one of Illinois’ many natural treasures, where families can go to enjoy the great outdoors.
$18 million trail improvement project planned at Starved Rock State Park
Illinois will invest $18 million in 2026 to improve trails at Starved Rock State Park and boost visitor safety at the state’s most visited park.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Starved Rock State Park is one of Illinois’ many natural treasures, where families can go to enjoy the great outdoors.
Among the leaves
November 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Among the leaves
Reading some Margaret Field tonight, because I was just looking at a book that consistently spells her name Feld
November 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Reading some Margaret Field tonight, because I was just looking at a book that consistently spells her name Feld
Heading to New Orleans
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Heading to New Orleans
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The Saluki Greenway is a 10-foot-wide, paved bike path along State Highway 13, connecting Carbondale to Murphysboro.
Saluki Greenway bike path opens, linking Carbondale to Murphysboro
CARBONDALE, Ill. (WSIL) -- The City of Carbondale celebrated the opening of the Saluki Greenway with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday. The event marked the official inaugural ride on the
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November 18, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The Saluki Greenway is a 10-foot-wide, paved bike path along State Highway 13, connecting Carbondale to Murphysboro.
Pre American Anthropological Association meeting reading, Keith Basso's mother and father on the history of New Orleans
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Pre American Anthropological Association meeting reading, Keith Basso's mother and father on the history of New Orleans
This is a good read; especially for me, because it details a bit of the history of linguistic anthropology at UT Austin
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This is a good read; especially for me, because it details a bit of the history of linguistic anthropology at UT Austin
At the office
November 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
At the office
Clouds and pines
November 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Clouds and pines
"Whether Picnic at Hanging Rock is fact or fiction, my readers must decide for themselves. As the fateful picnic took place in the year nineteen hundred, and all the characters who appear in this book are long since dead, it hardly seems important"--Joan Lindsay
November 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"Whether Picnic at Hanging Rock is fact or fiction, my readers must decide for themselves. As the fateful picnic took place in the year nineteen hundred, and all the characters who appear in this book are long since dead, it hardly seems important"--Joan Lindsay
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Report: Oyster Cracker–Wise, Nation Doing Pretty Good https://theonion.com/report-oyster-cracker-wise-nation-doing-pretty-good-1819578214/
November 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Report: Oyster Cracker–Wise, Nation Doing Pretty Good https://theonion.com/report-oyster-cracker-wise-nation-doing-pretty-good-1819578214/
From the water
November 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
From the water
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In which I interview Miki Makihara and Juan Rodriguez about their book Language and Political Subjectivity: Stancemaking, Power and Politics in Chile and Venezuela
campanthropology.org/2025/10/13/m...
campanthropology.org/2025/10/13/m...
Miki Makihara and Juan Luis Rodríguez on their book, Language and Political Subjectivity
Tony Webster: I want to say how much I enjoyed reading your book Language and Political Subjectivity: Stancemaking, Power and Politics in Chile and Venezuela. It’s really a wonderful and thou…
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October 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
In which I interview Miki Makihara and Juan Rodriguez about their book Language and Political Subjectivity: Stancemaking, Power and Politics in Chile and Venezuela
campanthropology.org/2025/10/13/m...
campanthropology.org/2025/10/13/m...
"I received my training in anthropology under a disciplinary paradigm that combined culturalism and Parsonian grand theory. Put mildly, we were urged to be contemplative; put less innocuously, we were urged to take the view from above."--Johannes Fabian
November 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
"I received my training in anthropology under a disciplinary paradigm that combined culturalism and Parsonian grand theory. Put mildly, we were urged to be contemplative; put less innocuously, we were urged to take the view from above."--Johannes Fabian
"As far as anthropology is concerned, the short answer is: Speaking about others needs to be backed up by speaking with others. We will do this as long as we do ethnography."--Johannes Fabian
November 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
"As far as anthropology is concerned, the short answer is: Speaking about others needs to be backed up by speaking with others. We will do this as long as we do ethnography."--Johannes Fabian
"Anthropology emerged, less as a science of human nature than as the study of the damage done by one part of mankind to another (and thereby to all of humanity)."--Johannes Fabian
November 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
"Anthropology emerged, less as a science of human nature than as the study of the damage done by one part of mankind to another (and thereby to all of humanity)."--Johannes Fabian
"For ethnolinguists, whose research interests span both languages and the people who animate them, Chomsky's understanding of linguistics as a branch of cognitive psychology...is severely limited in aims and methods."--Paul Kroskrity, A Holistic Understanding of Arizona Tewa, Language (1985)
November 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
"For ethnolinguists, whose research interests span both languages and the people who animate them, Chomsky's understanding of linguistics as a branch of cognitive psychology...is severely limited in aims and methods."--Paul Kroskrity, A Holistic Understanding of Arizona Tewa, Language (1985)