<div>It's with a great deal of sadness that I pass along the news that Joel Sherzer passed away Nov. 6, 2022. Below is a link to an obituary put together by AILLA at UT Austin. Very best, akw </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><a href="https://ailla.utexas.org/node/233">https://ailla.utexas.org/node/233</a>
<br><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#45818e"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1guXD-ucnSZhzQB5Fia-zytAxhwDUZpcS&revid=0B5Tmx_woRpSCWk1qY2k5UEFuYVlYZi90T2laQWhNdmdQSUxNPQ" width="420" height="174"><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#45818e"><br>Anthony K. Webster</font><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#45818e">Professor</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><font color="#45818e">Department of Anthropology</font><br><span style="color:rgb(69,129,142)">Department of Linguistics<br></span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(69,129,142)"><font face="georgia, serif">Affiliate Faculty Native American and Indigenous Studies Program<br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(69,129,142)"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(69,129,142)"><font face="georgia, serif">Editor: <i>Anthropological Linguistics</i><br></font></span></div><div><div style="padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-left:0px;display:flex;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:1560px"><div><div style="margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(69,129,142)"><font face="georgia, serif">Editorial Boards: <i>Journal of Anthropological Research, Anthropology and Humanism, Journal de la société des américanistes</i></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(69,129,142)"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(69,129,142)"><font face="georgia, serif">Books:<br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(69,129,142)"></span></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/the-dine-reader" target="_blank">https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/the-dine-reader</a></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2515.htm" target="_blank">http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2515.htm</a><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/79762" target="_blank">https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/79762</a><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#45818e"><a href="https://unmpress.com/books/explorations-navajo-poetry-and-poetics/9780826348012" target="_blank">https://unmpress.com/books/explorations-navajo-poetry-and-poetics/9780826348012</a></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#45818e"><a href="https://iupress.org/9780253019417/the-legacy-of-dell-hymes/" target="_blank">https://iupress.org/9780253019417/the-legacy-of-dell-hymes/</a><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#45818e"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#45818e">This is to respectfully acknowledge and honor the present and past relationships of Native American peoples to the lands on which the University of Texas at Austin now stands, including Tonkawa, Lipan Apache, Comanche, and others extending back tens of millennia.</font><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div><div><br></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#45818e">To anthropologists I say, put your own house in order because what you may regard today as just a skirmish with Indians may tomorrow become a worldwide problem.--Alfonso Ortiz</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#45818e"><br></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(69,129,142)"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">The basic, the primary, the most important semiotic system is language: language really is the foundation of culture.</span></span><span style="color:rgb(69,129,142)"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#45818e">--</font>Roman 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