Reviews on Ling Anthro in the US?

[Laura Ahearn]

Nate,

You might take a look at Duranti's "Language as Culture in US Anthropology: Three Paradigms," Current Anthropology 33:323-347.

Laura

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On Feb 22, 2013, at 11:54 AM, Nathaniel Dumas <ndumas at LINGUISTICS.UCSB.EDU> wrote:

> 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