[Linganth] page 99 test for recent dissertations

[Ilana Gershon]

The CaMP Anthropology blog ( https://campanthropology.wordpress.com )
  would like to feature recent dissertations
in linguistic anthropology, performance, and media anthropology by
asking authors to take a version of the page 99 test.

The "test" is simple: Is Ford Madox Ford's statement "Open the book to
page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed
to you," accurate for the dissertation? To answer, the author will have
to say something (1) about the page and (2) about the dissertation.

If you have recently defended or you have recently graduated students
would be interested in doing this, please send a blog post to me --
igershon at indiana.edu.
We would like to feature dissertations defended in the past three years.

The full instructions:

  Is Ford Madox Ford's statement "Open the book to page ninety-nine and
read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you," accurate
for the dissertation? To answer, the author will have to say
  something (1) about the page and (2) about the dissertation.

The fact is, p 99 may well *not*  be representative of the dissertation, but the answer gives you an opportunity to say something about what your dissertation really is about and how that page fits in or ... whatever you like.

If you are interested, please allow yourself no more than 400 words (and 300 would probably be better); that limit does not include however much of pg 99 you'd like to quote--you may quote most of it, or little or none of it.


Please pass this along to anyone you think might be appropriate.
Thank you,
Ilana

-- 
Communication, Media, Performance
@ Indiana University

published articles can be found:
https://indiana.academia.edu/IlanaMGershon