Reviews on Ling Anthro in the US?

[Nathaniel Dumas]

Dear Colleagues,

I hope all is well. I'm currently designing a course on the  
anthropologies of the US, with the goal of incorporating ethnographies  
from both linguistic and cultural anthropology. It's less of a course  
about "what it means to be 'American'" and more of a course on how do  
different conceptualizations of the US in anthropology push us to  
rethink the multiple projects, concepts, and methods of the  
discipline. I've noticed that while there is much written about this  
from cultural anthropologists (including a 2010 Annual Review  
"Anthropologies of the US"), I've come up against a wall in my search  
for reviews on the problems and rewards for linguistic anthropologies  
of the US, even though many of us do conduct fieldwork in the US. That  
said, does anyone know of any review pieces that cover how  
contemporary linguistic anthropologies of the US in general have  
contributed to a rethinking of the discipline's epistemological,  
methodological, and areal foundations? (The only other one that comes  
to mind is Norma Mendoza Denton's 1999 ARA article, which focuses on  
US Latinos.)

Thanks in advance!

Best,
Nate

Nathaniel Dumas
Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara
http://ucsb.academia.edu/NathanielDumas/About