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<span style="font-family: Avenir, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(39, 38, 38);">Dear Colleagues,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Avenir, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(39, 38, 38);">Four times a year,
<i>Anthropology News</i> puts out calls for submissions on a particular theme. The recent theme of “in/visibility” prompted an incredible amount of interest from linguistic anthropologists working on an array of topics and in a wide range of fieldsites. With
all of this interest, we wanted to create a space beyond SLA’s short column in<i> Anthropology News</i> to showcase this work. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Avenir, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(39, 38, 38);">For the authors whose work we have collected together on the
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SLA blog</a>, the theme of in/visibility not only raises productive theoretical questions for linguistic anthropology, but it also poses methodological and ethical challenges for our research. Some of the posts explore in/visibility as something that people
agentively cultivate while others interrogate and respond to processes of in/visibilization. Some modes of in/visibility emerge out of folk categories and practices while other modes of in/visibility pertain to scholarly interests. And, while invisibility
especially is often understood to be a problem it can also, at times, be an actively sought tactic or simply a welcome reprieve from unwanted attention.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Avenir, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(39, 38, 38);">We thank our authors — Joe Wilson, Danny Begg, Tony Webster, and Lise Dobrin & Don Kulick — for sharing their work with us for this collection. We also
thank SLA Blog Editors Cat Tebaldi and Shannon Ward for letting us use this space to present these pieces together. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Avenir, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(39, 38, 38);">In the coming weeks you will be able to continue reading about the anthropology of in/visibility, including Aidah Aljuran’s story of Isma‘ili practices
of invisibility in Sunni Saudi Arabia featured in the SLA column, when </span><span style="font-family: Avenir, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(47, 90, 174);"><a href="http://anthropology-news.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" data-outlook-id="1a338f09-7d05-4d07-a2b1-4935373ea5c6" style="color: rgb(47, 90, 174); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Anthropology
News</a> p</span><span style="font-family: Avenir, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(39, 38, 38);">ublishes their in/visibility issue.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Avenir, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(39, 38, 38);">In/Visibility in Linguistic Anthropology Series:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Avenir, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(47, 90, 174);"><a href="https://linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2025/08/07/pay-no-attention-to-those-engineers-behind-the-curtain-the-hidden-infrastructure-that-runs-ai/" data-outlook-id="c1cba9ac-bb2c-4169-a611-d5db23d8bb3a" style="color: rgb(47, 90, 174); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Pay
No Attention to Those Engineers Behind the Curtain: The Hidden Infrastructure that Runs AI</a></span><span style="font-family: Avenir, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(39, 38, 38);"> — Joseph Wilson</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Avenir, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(47, 90, 174);"><a href="https://linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2025/08/07/nobody-wants-their-doomscroll-to-be-interrupted/" data-outlook-id="37012a5f-d49e-45e0-a8a6-5e82c8a00878" style="color: rgb(47, 90, 174); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">“Nobody
wants Their Doomscroll to be Interrupted”: Struggling for Visibility against Algorithmic Suppression</a></span><span style="font-family: Avenir, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(39, 38, 38);"> — Danny Begg</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Avenir, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(47, 90, 174);"><a href="https://linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2025/08/07/a-navajo-poetry-of-place/" data-outlook-id="86bd950a-14b8-4b9b-8ef9-9d141ab5b133" style="color: rgb(47, 90, 174); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">A
Navajo Poetry of Place</a></span><span style="font-family: Avenir, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(39, 38, 38);"> — Anthony K. Webster</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Avenir, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(47, 90, 174);"><a href="https://linguisticanthropology.org/blog/2025/08/07/they-dont-see-a-problem-we-dont-see-the-desire-for-connection-indifference-to-language-loss-in-papua-new-guinea-and-its-challenge-for-research/" data-outlook-id="05d7d864-686c-4b39-9742-e1cc15925859" style="color: rgb(47, 90, 174); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">They
Don’t See a Problem, We Don’t See the Desire for Connection: Indifference to Language Loss in Papua New Guinea and Its Challenge for Research</a></span><span style="font-family: Avenir, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(39, 38, 38);"> —
Lise M. Dobrin and Don Kulick</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Avenir, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(39, 38, 38);">Best wishes,</span></p>
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