anthony k webster🐿
@ethnopoetics.bsky.social
linguistic anthropologist, linguistic relativist, philologist, humanist, kayaker, tree grower, midwesterner, purdue alum
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
From the water
November 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
From the water
"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)
Genuinely interested in reading this book, Joel Sherzer and Goffman were friends, and Joel enjoyed telling stories about Goffman
November 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Genuinely interested in reading this book, Joel Sherzer and Goffman were friends, and Joel enjoyed telling stories about Goffman
There's a generation or two of US anthropologists who were not linguistic anthropologists, now largely retired, whose understanding of linguistic anthropology was based on this book. An archaeologist gave me his copy when he was retiring
November 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
There's a generation or two of US anthropologists who were not linguistic anthropologists, now largely retired, whose understanding of linguistic anthropology was based on this book. An archaeologist gave me his copy when he was retiring
My advisor Joel Sherzer edited Morris Swadesh's very un-Chomsky book
November 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
My advisor Joel Sherzer edited Morris Swadesh's very un-Chomsky book
On that time Johannes Fabian exchanged letters with Noam Chomsky. Obviously, in my own work, Fabian's language-centered anthropology has been far more influential on my thinking than Chomsky's linguistics
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
On that time Johannes Fabian exchanged letters with Noam Chomsky. Obviously, in my own work, Fabian's language-centered anthropology has been far more influential on my thinking than Chomsky's linguistics
I've taught portions of Kozak's book for years, a good example of a dialogical approach to verbal art
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I've taught portions of Kozak's book for years, a good example of a dialogical approach to verbal art
Was talking with a student about William Leap the other day, and recommended they check out this classic on American Indian English
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Was talking with a student about William Leap the other day, and recommended they check out this classic on American Indian English
Morning reading, Kozak's edited volume on Southwest Native verbal art
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Morning reading, Kozak's edited volume on Southwest Native verbal art
Wasn't this the Robert Trivers defense of Epstein?
November 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Wasn't this the Robert Trivers defense of Epstein?
Morning reading, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Morning reading, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory
Happy Armistice Day
The pines my grandfather planted after he returned from WWI to make green again the world
"My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori"--Wilfred Owen
The pines my grandfather planted after he returned from WWI to make green again the world
"My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori"--Wilfred Owen
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Happy Armistice Day
The pines my grandfather planted after he returned from WWI to make green again the world
"My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori"--Wilfred Owen
The pines my grandfather planted after he returned from WWI to make green again the world
"My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori"--Wilfred Owen