Untangling The Ancient Khipu Code Of Strings
Last week in Current Anthropology, University of St. Andrews anthropologist Sabine Hyland, published, “Writing with Twisted Cords: The Inscriptive Capacity …
Category Archives: Linguistic Anthropology
An Auditory Reconstruction of the 6,000 Year Old Proto-Indo-European Language
Have you ever wondered what language sounded like in the past? In the mid-19th century, actually 1868, German linguist, August Schleicher, …
A Hope To Persevere Navajo Oral History
Jolyana Begay-Kroupa (@jolyanab), a Stanford language lecturer, hopes to digitize 300 reels of tape, holding thousands of hours of Navajo oral …
What does our Iceman Ötzi sound like?
The team behind Ötzi the Iceman reconstructed his vocal cords using a series of CT scans. They announced the project back …
Using Technology to Save Endangered Languages
There are many endangered languages in our collective linguistic radar. Some of them have been covered here before and some haven’t. In 2007, Joshua …
Marie’s Dictionary
This short documentary tells the story of Marie Wilcox, the last fluent speaker of the Wukchumni language and the dictionary …
Light Warlpiri, A Newly Discovered Australian Mixed Language
Linguist Carmel O’Shannessy wrote to the journal Language of a newly discovered language, Light Warlpiri. Her correspondence, “The role of …
What’s Wrong With Anthropology?
In December, I linked up Ann Gibbons’ article in Science about anthropology’s poor reception in the scientific community. I forgot …
Anthropologists Are Lowest Paid & Least Respected Scientists In the United States
Ann Gibbons has a piece in today’s Science where she writes of the troubles the field faces, “In the fall of 2011, …
Google Supports The Endangered Languages Project
On this site, we’ve covered endangered languages before, and in doing so we discussed the challenges faced in trying to …
