Glossographia: Five great 2014 articles on number systems
The scholarship on numbers is, as always, disciplinarily broad and intellectually diverse, which is why it’s so much fun to read even after fifteen years of poking at it. This past year saw loads of...
View ArticleGlossographia: Reassessing reasses in our pubic schools
As a college instructor, I run into the same typos and spelling mistakes all the time. You just have to laugh, because I don’t think I’ve ever written a typo-free paper, and most of the time they’re...
View ArticleGlossographia: Ph.Dining: the art of social eating in grad school
It’s probably not a secret to anyone who has ever been in grad school (or who reads PHD Comics) that departmental and college social events can be an important way to stave off starvation. My own...
View ArticleGlossographia: Still embuggered up
Over five years ago, I published what was (for a long time) to be my most popular post here at Glossographia, A feisty embuggerance, in which I described in the wild a particularly bizarre sort of...
View ArticleGlossographia: Language, Culture, and History: a reading list
Having appropriately propitiated the curricular deities, it appears that this coming fall, I’m going to be teaching a graduate seminar in linguistic anthropology on the topic of Language, Culture, and...
View ArticleGlossographia: How and why (not) to go to grad school (Happy National...
Today, Feb. 19, is National Anthropology Day. Now, you may not have previously heard of this hallowed waypoint in the seasonal cycle, and the likelihood that you’ll see Hallmark picking up on this is...
View ArticleGlossographia: Why adjunct labor matters to all of us
Today is National Adjunct Walkout Day, and if National Anthropology Day (from my last post) is not going to become a statutory holiday, you can be doubly sure that this one won’t either. It has come...
View ArticleGlossographia: Call for Papers: Strange Science: Anthropological Encounters...
Call for Papers, 2015 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado (Nov. 18-22, 2015) Strange Science: Anthropological Encounters with the Fringe Anthropology has a long...
View ArticleGlossographia: Language and Societies abstracts, vol. 7 (2015)
The abstracts below are summaries of papers by junior scholars from the 2015 edition of my course, Language and Societies, and presented at the course blog of the same name. The authors are...
View ArticleGlossographia: Where I’ve been (and will continue to be)
For those of you wondering where I’ve been, here’s the stack of grading I just received on Tuesday. It took me the better part of an hour just to get it sorted out the way I like it. Staples removed,...
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