anthony k webster🐿
@ethnopoetics.bsky.social
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...
journals.openedition.org
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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Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
. @rebeccasear.bsky.social is on a mission to get all studies using a database linking #IQ and race retracted. I spoke to her for @retractionwatch.com to find out more: retractionwatch.com/2025/11/25/m...
Meet the researcher aiming to halt use of ‘fundamentally flawed’ database linking IQ and nationality
Rebecca Sear Rebecca Sear is on a mission to convince publishers to retract articles that use a database that purports to rank countries based on intelligence. To maintain the integrity of scientif…
retractionwatch.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
Evening reading, fascinating reading, based on an extensive written corpus of the language from the 17th century; originally spoken in what is now northern Florida
November 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Evening reading, fascinating reading, based on an extensive written corpus of the language from the 17th century; originally spoken in what is now northern Florida
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Below is a list of some of the communities hosting free Thanksgiving dinners.
Local community Thanksgiving dinners
WSIL -- Local communities across our region are celebrating this Thanksgiving. Below is a list of some of the communities hosting free Thanksgiving dinners.
www.wsiltv.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Below is a list of some of the communities hosting free Thanksgiving dinners.
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Thomas King’s admission he isn’t Indigenous is just the first step. This is what has to happen next
#Opinion from Robert Jago
#Opinion from Robert Jago
Thomas King’s admission he isn’t Indigenous is just the first step. This is what has to happen next
Though not a shock to some, it's time to reckon with the harm done.
www.thestar.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Thomas King’s admission he isn’t Indigenous is just the first step. This is what has to happen next
#Opinion from Robert Jago
#Opinion from Robert Jago
If it's National Linguistics Day, then I'm reading from the big book of Mary Haas
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
If it's National Linguistics Day, then I'm reading from the big book of Mary Haas
40 degrees, 20 mph winds, perfect kayaking weather
November 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
40 degrees, 20 mph winds, perfect kayaking weather
Remembering Helga Delisle on National Linguistics Day, who taught me something about linguistics, here's her article on Consonantal Symbolism in American Indian Languages
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Remembering Helga Delisle on National Linguistics Day, who taught me something about linguistics, here's her article on Consonantal Symbolism in American Indian Languages
Among the supplemental essays included in Bauman's Verbal Art as Performance was Gossen's Chamula Genres of Verbal Behavior
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Among the supplemental essays included in Bauman's Verbal Art as Performance was Gossen's Chamula Genres of Verbal Behavior
This paper by Gary Gossen from Bauman and Sherzer's Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking was required reading in graduate school
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
This paper by Gary Gossen from Bauman and Sherzer's Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking was required reading in graduate school
I recently heard that Gary Gossen had passed away earlier this year, his book Chamulas in the World of the Sun was a book I read with much interest
November 26, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I recently heard that Gary Gossen had passed away earlier this year, his book Chamulas in the World of the Sun was a book I read with much interest
Saw a couple beaver swimming in the cove, they probably thought no one would be dumb enough to paddle in this weather, they didn't know a Webster was about
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Saw a couple beaver swimming in the cove, they probably thought no one would be dumb enough to paddle in this weather, they didn't know a Webster was about
For those interested in something of the process of orthography development, this paper by Tonya Stebbins on Sm'algyax is useful
November 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
For those interested in something of the process of orthography development, this paper by Tonya Stebbins on Sm'algyax is useful
A couple of good ethnographies of Indigenous literacy practices
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A couple of good ethnographies of Indigenous literacy practices
Twitter is still a fount of misinformation and anti-Indigenous garbage
November 25, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Twitter is still a fount of misinformation and anti-Indigenous garbage
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Data centers popping up on Indigenous lands everywhere, but especially perilous to us desert tribes where water availability for crops and for communities have new competition.
The data center boom in the desert
The AI race is transforming northwestern Nevada into one of the world's largest data-center markets—and sparking fears of water strains in the nation’s driest state.
www.technologyreview.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Data centers popping up on Indigenous lands everywhere, but especially perilous to us desert tribes where water availability for crops and for communities have new competition.
Lake gull photo bomb
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Lake gull photo bomb
November beach
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
November beach
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park
November 23, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park
Enjoyable AAA, it was good to have it in hotels again. Next year, St. Louis
November 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Enjoyable AAA, it was good to have it in hotels again. Next year, St. Louis
Obligatory stop at cafe du monde
November 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Obligatory stop at cafe du monde
Monument of the Immigrant
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Monument of the Immigrant