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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Happy New Year, anthropologists,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rural speech is often denigrated, but how might it also be valuable? In this third and final installment of our “Is Talk Cheap?” series on language and value, Ariana Gunderson and I interview Dr. Thea Strand about a highly valorized dialect
of rural Norway that won a national popularity contest and is increasingly being used commercially. We talk about how the Valdres dialect is now used commercially for tourists in diverse places, from wayfinding signs on ski trails to advertising car washes
at gas stations. Learn the significance of a single vowel in advertising a festival for fermented fish!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://econanthro.org/podcasts/is-talk-cheap-language-tourism-and-landscape-a-conversation-with-thea-strand/" title="https://econanthro.org/podcasts/is-talk-cheap-making-palm-oil-sustainable-a-conversation-with-montserrat-perez-castro/">"Is
Talk Cheap? Language, Tourism, and Landscape: A Conversation with Thea Strand"</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Mergers and Acquisitions is a podcast of the Society for Economic Anthropology, produced in collaboration with the American Anthropological Association. We
feature quarterly thematic collections on topics that range from climate change and digital capitalism to entrepreneurship, waste, and energy.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">In the
<i><a href="https://econanthro.org/category/podcasts/is-talk-cheap/" title="https://econanthro.org/category/podcasts/is-talk-cheap/">Is Talk Cheap?
</a></i><a href="https://econanthro.org/category/podcasts/is-talk-cheap/" title="https://econanthro.org/category/podcasts/is-talk-cheap/">series</a>, PhD student Ariana Gunderson and I are bringing economic anthropology and linguistic anthropology together
to explore language and value. We are hosting interviews with anthropologists thinking critically about qualia, evaluation, authenticity, and circulation, tracing the ways that value is semiotically negotiated and constructed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">All of the episodes in this series:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">November 1: Is Talk Cheap? Language and Value: A Conversation with Jillian Cavanaugh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">December 1: Is Talk Cheap? Making Palm Oil “Sustainable”: A Conversation with Montserrat Perez Castro<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">January 1:
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#212121">Is Talk Cheap? Language, Tourism, and Landscape with Thea Strand</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Happy listening,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Kate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Kathryn E. Graber</span></b><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Associate Professor,
<a href="https://anthropology.indiana.edu/about/faculty/graber-kathryn.html"><span style="color:#861106">Department of Anthropology</span></a> and
<a href="https://ceus.indiana.edu/people/current-faculty/graber-kathryn.html"><span style="color:#861106">Department of Central Eurasian Studies</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Co-Director,<span style="color:#861106">
</span><a href="https://ssrc.indiana.edu/facilities/quallab/index.html"><span style="color:#861106">Qualitative Data Analysis Lab</span></a><span style="color:#0C64C0">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Indiana University</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Member at Large, Society for Linguistic Anthropology (2023-2026)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">publications:
<a href="https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501750519/mixed-messages/">
<i><span style="color:#861106">Mixed Messages</span></i></a> | <a href="https://brill.com/display/title/38668?language=en">
<i><span style="color:#861106">Storytelling as Narrative Practice</span></i></a> |
<a href="https://indiana.academia.edu/KathrynGraber"><span style="color:#861106">downloadable things</span></a></span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">I wish to acknowledge and honor the myaamiaki, Lënape, Bodwéwadmik, and saawanwa people, on whose ancestral homelands and resources Indiana University Bloomington
is built.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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