Anthropology Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Uprooted and replanted: recontextualizing a genre.
(2011-01-26)Decontextualized cultural material presents an interpretive challenge. A list of proverbs gives no indication of the range of social purposes for which speakers deploy them, nor how the proverbs came about. Such proverbs ... -
Auditory exostoses and evidence for fishing at Vlasac
(University of Chicago Press, 1988) -
On Neanderthal Crania and Speech: Response to Lieberman
(University of Chicago Press, 1993-12) -
Krapina 3: Cut Marks and Ritual Behavior?
(Croatian Society of Natural Sciences, 2006-08)Incisions on the frontal of the Krapina 3 cranium differ from other cut marks from the site. Thirty-five, mostly parallel marks course up the frontal from right of the midline, just posterior to the supraorbitale point ... -
The Iceman as a Burial
(Antiquity Publications, 2010-09)Since his discovery in 1991 the iceman has been widely seen as meeting a dramatic end – mortally wounded by an arrow shot while attempting to flee through an Alpine pass. A careful study of all the located grave goods, ... -
Review of Li and Luckert 1994. Mythology Folklore of the Hui, a Muslim Chinese People.
(China Review International, 1995)This review article critiques the primordialist and atemporal approach to ethnicity and folklore, specifically in the context of the Sinophone Muslim Huis. -
Intimacy for Sale: Masculinity, Entrepreneurship, and Commodity Self in Japan's Neoliberal Situation
(Japanese Studies, 2010-09)This article examines the creation of entrepreneurial male subjects in Japan's host clubs. Based on my ethnographic study, I argue that hosts' entrepreneurship is constituted by commodifying themselves. This paradoxical - ... -
Salar and Sarïgh Yoghur (Yellow Uyghur) dictionaries published in China
(Harrassowitz Verlag, 1995)The article reviews the state of the art ca. 1994 pedagogical grammars and bilingual dictionaries for the two Turkic languages of China. -
Altaic Elements in the Línxià dialect [of NW Chinese]: Contact-induced Change on the Yellow River Plateau / 臨夏方言的阿爾台語成分: 黃河高原的語言交叉及其變化
(Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 1992)Language contact between the Han and non-Han languages of China have often been assumed to be unidirectional and generally limited to the lexicon, while morphosyntactic interference on dominant languages is assumed to be ... -
Materials for the study of Modern Uyghur published in China
(Harrassowitz Verlag, 1994)This short review article describes the state of the art ca. 1994 in Uyghur language learning materials and references. -
Greetings from the Teklimakan: a handbook of Modern Uyghur (volume 1)
(2009-12-10)An introductory textbook of the modern standard Uyghur language with exercises and extensive grammatical analysis. With the accompanying audio, the textbook is designed for self-study or a one-year classroom course. -
Testing, The Bell Curve, and the Social Construction of Intelligence
(Tikkun: A Bimonthly Jewish and Interfaith Critique of Politics, Culture and Society, 1995-01) -
Suits for Wrongful Life, Counterfactuals, and the Nonexistence Problem
(University of Southern California, 1996) -
From Key Numbers to Keywords: How Automation Has Transformed the Law
(American Association of Law Libraries, 2002)The automation of information has far-reaching consequences for the law. Print-based research sources foster a view of the law as a separate domain, hierarchically organized under basic principles. In contrast, computer-assisted ... -
Syntagmatic Structures: How Maoris Make Sense of History
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From Classification to Indexing: How Automation Transforms the Way we Think
(2004)To classify is to organize the particulars in a body of information according to some meaningful scheme. Difficulty recognizing metaphor, synonyms and homonyms, and levels of generalization renders those applications of ... -
Interview with Allan Hanson
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How Poverty Lost Its Meaning
(Cato Institute, 1997) -
Christian Branches, Maori Roots: The Cult of Rua
(University of Chicago Press, 1990-11) -
The New Superorganic
(University of Chicago Press, 2004-08)Despite proposals by Kroeber and others that society and culture represent a distinct level of reality, the prevailing opinion has been that they are abstractions from the behavior of individuals. Recently that position, ...