I've recently encountered several people in their teens or early twenties who ask, as individuals, to be referred to as they/them/their/themself. Looking around to see how common this might be, I found an undated (?) survey reporting the following results:
All in all, over eight hundred people responded, the majority from the US and other English-dominant countries. A few were binary- or cisgendered individuals who left hostile comments (i.e., stating that there was no such thing as gender outside the binary) or answers that indicated confusion as to the purpose of the survey (i.e., identifying themselves as binary-/cisgendered and remarking that they would always accommodate the pronouns requested by another person). Others, despite describing their gender only as one of the binary genders without further comment, also indicated nontraditional pronoun preferences. […]
“They” was the most preferred pronoun-set for 62.39% of respondents; the second and third were “he” and “she” at 31.39% and 29.73% respectively. (These numbers are not contradictory; about 48% of respondents indicated preference for multiple pronoun-sets).
There are some other indications here and there of movement in the direction of they. People who for one reason or another are unhappy with gendered third-person pronouns have plenty of other options, but none of them seem to be gaining much momentum.
Although singular they is much more natural for English-speakers than ne or ve or ze or ey or xe, it's still not easy to get used to. Despite some experience, I still often misunderstand such references. And I find it hard to remember to use the right pronoun, even if, as one sympathetic young person put it, "They'll be insulted if you call them 'her'".
Could this catch on in general usage, in the way that the merger of thou/you into you did a few hundred years ago? It doesn't seem very likely; but attitudes towards gender and gender roles have changed a lot over the last century, so who knows?
Meanwhile, I'm surprised that there's not yet a band named Singular They.
Update — to clarify something that I failed to prevent several commenters from mistaking — I'm NOT talking about the use of singular they to refer to quantified or indefinite people, as discussed in many earlier LL posts. Rather, the topic is cases where forms of they are used in reference to a specific, definite, known person, as in "Kim helped themself to another piece of cake", or "Sandy said they [meaning Sandy] left their cell phone on the table". Or an exchange like this one: "A: Is Mary coming to dinner? B: No, they texted me to say that they're not feeling well."
We've cited one earlier example of this phenomenon:
Dr Gerald Black has applied for a position of Lecturer in the Department of Criminology at the University of Penzance. I would be grateful if you could provide a reference on their suitability for this post.
But in that example, the pronoun was a decent distance from its antecedent, and might have arisen due to recycling a generic letter template.
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Language Log: The future of singular they
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hawgblawg: Malik, gone for 6 months
It's been six months to the day since our beloved animal companion Malik passed away. He was a big dog, weighed nearly 100 lbs., probably a Catahoula-Great Dane mix. But who knows, he was picked up on the street by our neighbor, abandoned as a small puppy along with his sister near the Veterans Hospital in Fayetteville. Probably he was abandoned by a breeder, due to the fact that he had a deformed iris, which meant that his right eye had a bit of trouble with bright sunlight.Malik means "king" in Arabic. He was no royalty as a puppy, he chewed on everything, was unbelievably rambunctious and energetic. Over the 11 and three-quarters years that he lived with us, we must have walked nearly 10,000 miles. When he grew up, however, he came to project an aura of dignity, and so came to grow into his name. He was a trooper right til the end, still full of life and full of joy, eager to walk. Except he really couldn't, his back legs were giving out, probably due to pressure on his spine and nerves, from the large fatty tumor that grew on his back over the last year of his life. At least three vets who I consulted told me it was inoperable, so there wasn't much we could do.Malik went with me to Georgetown University when I spent the year there as a visiting professor from August 2011-May 2012. He was such a fabulous companion, and he loved our daily walks in DC, along Rock Creek, in Georgetown, along the Potomac. I will treasure that memory forever. Miss ya, buddy. You were the best.
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the Anthropologist in the Stacks: Field Trip! NC State Hunt Library and Spaces to Think With.
On Wednesday I visited not just NC State for the first time ever, but I got to have a comprehensive tour of the new James B. Hunt Library. They had an open house yesterday, and the place was full of people who work in libraries (visitors came from all over the region, including out of state) being led around the amazing spaces.There are pictures of the Hunt library all over the internet--I reproduce mine here not because they are fantastic photos, but because I took pictures of things that help me think about library spaces, and about what is possible in our own spaces at Atkins (which I've been uncharacteristically (for my blog) chatty about recently). It is an objectively spectacular space, and the fact that not everyone has the resources to create such a space should not deter people from going into what NCSU has created, learning from it, and dreaming big. I intend here (and everywhere) not just to think about spaces, but to think with spaces, not just fancy ones like there are at Hunt, but in the more mundane everyday spaces in which our students and faculty find themselves.The small 3-D printer that NCSU students can use for prototypes for classes, or just having fun.I am going to blog here mostly about space, although the tech stuff possible in the Hunt library is just as cool, and just as worthy of anyone's attention; for example, the fact that students and faculty now have 3-D printers at their disposal in the Hunt makerspaces. The Hunt library is, to my mind, the biggest branch library I have ever seen. It is the library for the new Centennial Campus at State, which means its primary users are in Engineering, Textiles, and other science programs. It is also envisioned as a "second main library" for the entire university, and I will be interested to see what other constituencies use the spaces in that building. They are undeniably attractive.Color has been used in simple but effective ways to mark places that students need to look for.Yellow is for Stairs.Blue is for Elevators. Orange is for restrooms.Red is for Asking for Help (as well as the Wolfpack). All people going into and out of the library have to pass by the Ask Us station, which is not just an info point, but an all-services point, where students can go to for reference, technical, and circulation help. In addition, workers can be deployed (via walkie talkie) to parts of the library where people need help (this is apparently very popular for IT type help). Reference specialists can be called from other parts of the building if a question is particularly in-depth. Books that are retrieved by the "Book Bot" are put in this space within five minutes of the request.And hey, let's talk about that Book Bot.Entering on the 1st floor of the Hunt Library gives you a great view of the "back" of the automated vertical storage unit, which holds 1.5 million volumes. Books, folios, microfilm, and DVDs (among other things) once requested, can be made available for patrons in 5 minutes (and retrieved from the Ask Us station), or delivered to faculty offices. They are sorted by size, and bar-coded for identification (although they are also RFID-ing each thing that is circulated, with the hope that at least the most circulated things will be RFID-tagged eventually, if not the entire Hunt collection). This is the "front" of the system, showing one of the robots that retrieves the books, with one of the bins, showing how the books are sorted. So, yeah, the system is cool, and really makes me think about the future of stacks maintenance, but what I was struck by was what NCSU's library IT has built to make it possible to browse closed shelving (it's currently in Beta).They call it Virtual Browse, and it's a touch screen that is currently mounted on the 1st floor, before you enter the library proper, between the large windows that give you a view onto the back of the Book Bot. This allows for browsing the Hunt collection in a way that is simply not physically possible anymore, given that the books are all in the automated storage system, and that it was never possible to look at the physical collection and browse the electronic resources at the same time. The Virtual Browse includes electronic resources as well as physical. This exercise in stacks virtualization, I think, is not just useful for libraries with closed/automated/off-site collections, but for all of us. In my experience, many of our patrons experience our stacks as "closed" even if they are technically open, because they don't know how to navigate or read the stacks. This tool allows them to navigate the stacks and find things even if they don't understand the call number system, even if they aren't exactly sure where in the building those books are. I think I'm more excited about the virtual browser than I am about the book-finding robot.The collaborative work spaces in open parts of the Hunt library (spread across 3 floors) are colorful and configured in a variety of ways (with very attractive and fancy furniture). Some booths. This one has a view beyond to the Graduate Reading Room.Some tables with task chairs, rolling whiteboards, stools.Some bar-type computer banks. (the computers were Coming Soon).And so on.There are also spaces that evoke the design trope of the reading room, also spread across at least 3 floors of the Hunt Library. I especially appreciated the simple trick of integrating physical books into spaces for effect. The silent study reading room at one end of the main floor is lined on at least two sides with book shelving.The rain garden reading room just before that integrates some of the reference collection, faculty book collection, and new books into the furniture arrangements. What books do here is set expectations, they read "library" to people, and they say, without any signs of any kind , volumes (ha) about where people are once they walk into those spaces. When we start downsizing our physical collections, I think we who work in libraries would do well to think about the other properties of books-- to think carefully about all the different ways that books speak to our communities, beyond the delivery of content.And here's the thing: we don't have to have all the resources in the world to engage in the kind of thinking that NCSU put into its Hunt Library spaces. I think (to be utterly immodest) that we are trying to do that kind of thing in Atkins at UNCC, right now. Every library should aspire to be: clear about what is where, beautiful in its execution of design, deliberate in providing a variety of spaces, and thoughtful about how and where to deploy appropriate technology, and dedicated to the staffing levels that create seamless access to services and resources. We need to think with the spaces we already have, pay attention to what is trying to be done in those spaces, and imagine beyond what is there now to what could be.
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Museum Anthropology: Student Spotlights: The Presentation of Indigenous Heritage
Student Spotlights: The Presentation of Indigenous Heritage
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Ethnography.com: Gene Promoters 3: Tony Strikes Back
Ok, I think I will jump into Michael’s stream. I have a problem with the reductionism of geneticists, evolutionary psychologists, socio-biology, etc., too. And I’m also annoyed when such types go beyond their data, and start making generalizations that would be better addressed with the nuanced data ethnographer-types generate. Notably such data often cannot be “seen” from the spread sheets and certainly not from the bench of a genetics lab. I have written the editors of PLoS Biology (2005) and BMC Genetics (2013) respectively about such problems with respect to the Mla Bri of Thailand, a group which a long-time colleague and friend knows well. My comments were received well by both editors, and are now attached to the articles here, and here. Note: I’m also vain enough to put these two comments on my c.v., and if I were up for tenure, would be sure to highlight them!
My point is that Anthropology instead of always playing defense on the blogs, is probably better served by doing what they do best, i.e. interrogate and synthesize complex data about human groups. There are outlets for your insights; contact editors in the big-time science journals particularly if someone working from a lab bench is making over-generalizations about a group you know well. I think anthropologists will sometimes be pleasantly surprised, as I was. And particularly, don’t be shy about treading on others’ “territory;” your four-field background means that you bridge gaps in ways other cannot (or when they try, they miss the nuance). Anthropology should not be so shy about treading on others’ territory—after all the biologists (and many others) are not so shy about treading on anthropology’s territory.
In other words, call the socio-biologists, evolutionary psychologists and others on the over-generalizations, reductionism, and (need I say it) methodological positivism when necessary. It is what you do best, don’t be shy (but also get a thick skin!).
BTW, this post is in part my response to Razib Khan’s analysis of Southeast Asian migration data from the lab bench. Unlike the critiques I posted above, he clearly states the fact that he is working from a lab bench, genes and culture are not the same thing, and that there are problems with how the Thai and Cambodian data were collected. Good for him on this one.
I still wish though that Razib would acknowledge that just maybe the world indeed better off with cultural anthropology, than without.
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Erkan in the Army now...: Yeni Anayasa gündemi… Kılıçdaroğlu’nun ‘yeni anayasa’ tarifi…Erdoğan’ın anayasa için B ve C planı
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Yirmidort Haber
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Yeni Anayasa’da RTÜK Ve TRT!
Turk Time
AK Parti; Anayasa’da RTÜK ile ilgili maddeye gerek olmadığını belirtirken, CHP, MHP ve BDP ise basın ve ifade özgürlüğünün garanti altına alınması için yer almasını gerektiğini savundu. ”Radyo ve Televizyon Üst Kurulu” maddesinde uzlaşmaya varılan
Yeni Anayasa Yazımında “bölüm’ Tartışması
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MHP Konya Milletvekili Faruk Bal, Anayasa Uzlaşma Komisyonu’nun, Meclis Başkanı’nın aldığı inisiyatif ve 4 siyasi partinin kurumsal kararıyla oluştuğunu belirterek, “Komisyon, anayasayı toplumsal mutabakatla yapmak üzere kurulmuştur. 4 siyasi parti bu
Anayasa yapmak
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Vatandaş yeni anayasa için ne diyor?
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Kayseri”de “Yeni Anayasa Sempozyumu” düzenleniyor
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Babacan, çözüm ile yeni anayasa sürecini değerlendirdi
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Babacan, yeni anayasa yazım sürecinde çok fazla yol alındığını ve mutabakatın sağlandığını söylemenin mümkün olmadığını kaydederek, komisyonun çalışmalarına devam ettiğini ancak uzlaşma sağlanmaması halinde parti olarak kendi düşüncelerini ortaya
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Anayasa, vatandaşlığı değil Türk’ü tanımlıyor
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Yeni Şafak’ın manşetine taşıdığı Anayasa Hukukçusu Prof. Dr. Serap Yazıcı’nın ‘vatandaşlık kavramı anayasada yer almayabilir’ önerisine anayasa hukukçuları da destek verdi.Anayasa’da Türk vatandaşlığının değil, Türk’ün tanımının yapıldığı görüşünde
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Yeni Anayasa Komısyonu görüşmelerİnde MHP, İmralı’daki müzakerelerin insani, ahlaki, vicdani ve hukuki olmadığını savunurken görüşmelerin Anayasa surecini baltaladığı görüşünde. MHP Ak Partinin Yenı Anayasa için BDP’nin desteğini İmralı kozuyla
Insafsız Seyyar, Pervasız Müşteri (Anayasa Pazarlıkları)
Radikal
Oysa AKP’nin anayasa teklifinin niteliğiyle, iyi bir pazarlık sonucu on liraya düşecek seyyar satıcının ilk elden yüz lira fiyat biçmesi arasındaki fark nedir ki? AKP gerçekten de öne sürdüğü o teklifin bir şekilde kabul edileceğini düşünmüş olabilir
Yeni Anayasa’da kadın kotası tartışması
Akşam
TBMM Anayasa Uzlaşma Komisyonu, “Başkanlık sistemi ve İmralı görüşmeleri” tartışmalarıyla kilitlendi. Komisyon, bu tartışmalar nedeniyle bugün toplantısını iptal ederken, yarın yapılacak toplantının TBMM Başkanı Cemil Çiçek başkanlığında yapılması ve
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Erkan in the Army now...: A report: “Thesis Landscapes from the Dark Alleys of Turkish Academy
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The author‘s note: This is the English translation of the article that was originally published here in Turkish. Dr. Kaan Öztürk and Pınar Çelik helped me with the translation. I would like to thank Dr. Kaan Öztürk specifically for his significant contribution to the translation. I also thank Anoush Dadian and Dr. Debora Weber-Wulff for proofreading. Since this article was written for scientists from Turkey, most of the resources referred from within the article are also in Turkish. I am aware that they will not be useful for most of the readers, but I wanted to keep them in the translated version anyway for the sake of the integrity of the translation. I hope this work would be beneficial for scientists who would like to develop an opinion about the concurrent issues in Turkey. The abbreviation ‘YÖK’ appears many times in the text stands for The Council of Higher Education in Turkish, a governmental agency, the purpose of which is to ‘regulate’ the science and scientists in Turkey to meet the expectations of the authority. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions.
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C L O S E R: Haremfeminisme: het blanke elitaire feminisme ?
Closer Blog: De feministische praktijk blijft tot nader bericht zeer blank en elitair, vindt Norah Karrouche. Wanneer het zuiden hier dichtbij komt in de vorm van een andersoortige vrouwelijkheid of feminisme, dan is het iedere feminist(e) en iedere harem voor zich. Read more: Haremfeminisme: het blanke elitaire feminisme ?
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tabsir.net: Central Asian and Middle Eastern Numismatics Seminar
‘Great Ruler of Sogdiana, of the Tchao-ou Race’/Alram’s ‘Imitationsgruppe V’
Yueh Chih Principality of Sogdiana AR Tetradrachm, 130 BCE - 80 CE
The Fifth Seminar in Central Asian and Middle Eastern Numismatics in Memoriam Boris Kochnev will be held at Hofstra University on Saturday, March 16, 2013.
This seminar is free and open to the public. Hofstra is located in Hempstead, NY, easily accessible from NYC by the Long Island Railroad. For directions click here or here. The seminar will be held in Breslin Hall, room 112. For more information, contact Aleksandr Naymark or Daniel Martin Varisco.
Seminar Program:
10:00 am
Daniel Varisco (Hofstra University)
Opening Remarks
10:15
Vadimir Belyaev (Zeno.ru, Moscow) and Aleksandr Naymark (Hofstra University)
Archer Coins from South Sogdiana (1st – 3rd centuries C.E.)
10:45 pm
Pankaj Tandon (Boston University)
Notes on Alchon Coins
11:15 pm
Waleed Ziad (Yale University)
The Nezak – Turk Shahi Transition:
Evidence from the Kashmir Smast (mid 7th c. C.E.) (more…)
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Erkan in the Army now...: Foreign Policy roundup: Turkey and Greece relations even more sweet as Greece offers support to Turkey ‘s 2020 Olympic bid
Greece offers support to Turkey ‘s 2020 Olympic bid
from Yahoo News Photos
ISTANBUL (AP) — Greece has offered its support to regional rival Turkey ‘s bid to host the 2020 Olympics.
Turkey will be Europe’s strongest economy in 2050: Turkish President Gül
from Hurriyet Daily News
Turkey will become the first economy of the continent in 2050, the Turkish president said in a special interview with Swedish daily..
Turkey’s tentative EU springtime
from Yahoo news
The translucent white marble stairs and cream gilt and stucco ceilings of the ceremonial hall of Ankara’s new presidential palace rarely echo to spontaneous applause, but the words “Turkey will always be part of my heart” did the trick.
Turkey’s tentative EU springtime: EU Romance Rekindled
by Acturca
The Majalla (UK) 4 March 2013 Hugh Pope * The translucent white marble stairs and cream gilt and stucco ceilings of the ceremonial hall of Ankara’s new presidential palace rarely echo to spontaneous applause, but the words “Turkey will always be part of my heart” did the trick. The declaration came from a source to
Avoiding a Shrinking EU in an Expanding Planet: A Turkish Contribution to the Debate on Europe’s Future
by Acturca
Policy Brief (German Marshall Fund of the United States) February 28, 2013 Bahadır Kaleağası * Global challenges are pushing the EU toward an unavoidable dilemma. The EU ought to expand to include new countries and reach a critical size that will let it weather the 21st century. However, the EU has to also be a
Athènes et Ankara : un réchauffement des relations
by Acturca
Les Echos (France) no. 21390, mercredi 6 mars 2013, p. 8 Dans la presse étrangère Jacques Hubert-Rodier Le réchauffement des relations entre la Grèce et la Turquie, a franchi un nouveau degré après la rencontre lundi à Istanbul du Premier ministre Antonis Samaras avec son homologue turc, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, estiment les journaux grecs et
Economic crisis; a curse or a blessing for Turkish-Greek relations
from Hurriyet Daily News
A recent statement by the Greek Foreign Ministry created a sort of “nostalgic” effect on me.
Où va la Turquie ?
by Acturca
Le Figaro (France) no. 21332, mardi 5 mars 2013, p. 14 Bibliothèque des essais Laure Marchand Au cours de ses cinq années à Ankara, Marc Pierini, alors chef de la délégation de la Commission européenne, était en immersion complète dans son objet d’étude. De 2006 à 2011, chargé de préparer l’intégration du pays candidat à [
‘My Turkey’: Berlin, immigration and the amateur football scene
from open Democracy News Analysis – by Catherine Stupp
Berlin’s Turkish football clubs tell the tale of a local struggle for multiculturalism and integration, far away from the politics of migration.
Quote of the Week: EU Member States’ Perceptions on Turkey’s Accession to the EU
by Changing Turkey
A publication of the Center for European Studies, Middle East Technical University
Editors: Sait Akşit, Özgehan Şenyuva, Çiğdem Üstün
Christian Syrian Refugees Denied Support in Turkey
from Kamil Pasha by Jenny White
CHP member of parliament Safak Pavey recently returned from Syria where she and a group of Turkish lawmakers met with President Bashar al-Assad in an attempt to free foreign journalists believed held by his regime. Pavey crossed overland in Hatay and on her trip spoke with Syrian refugees. She learned that Christian refugees were being denied places in Turkey’s refugee camps; it is argued that this is for their own safety because of their association with the Assad regime. Instead Christian Syrians are left to their own devices without support and without being counted in the statistics of the displaced that now includes one in every ten Syrians. Christians make up nine percent of Syria’s population. In her press statement, Pavey recounts meeting a Christian family in Iskenderun that had escaped Syria several months ago but was not accepted into a refugee camp. Their money had run out and now they didn’t know what to do. The father, a man in his fifties, had run out of hope as well.
A Complicated Trio: Turkey , Cyprus and the EU
from Yahoo News Photos
Will Turkey finally be admitted to the EU or will the memory of Cyprus haunt the process?
Turkey says Syrian rebels at disadvantage as not properly armed
from Yahoo News Photos
Ahmet Davutoglu said he discussed the embargo barring delivery of all arms to Syria with Britain and Germany.
Turkey rejects ‘neo-Ottoman’ label
from Yahoo News Photos
ANKARA, Mar 4: Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu on Sunday responded to the labeling of Turkey ‘s foreign policy as neo-Ottoman by asking why those who united European countries are not called “neo-Romans.”
Muddy Water: Greece, Turkey Spar Over Sea
by Acturca
The Wall Street Journal Europe (USA) March 8, 2013, p. 1 By Alkman Granitsas and Stelios Bouras, Athens Greece has renewed its territorial claims over a broad swath of disputed waters in the eastern Mediterranean where the indebted country hopes to find vast oil and gas deposits— a plan that risks sparking a confrontation with
UE/Turquie : Nouvelle collaboration scientifique entre l’UE et la Turquie
by Acturca
Europolitique (Belgique) 8 mars 2013 Par Marie-Martine Buckens Le Centre commun de recherche de la Commission européenne (CCR) et le Conseil turc de la recherche scientifique et technique (Tübitak) ont décidé de collaborer dans une série de domaines, dont l’environnement et le transport. L’annonce de la signature prochaine d’un protocole d’accord entre les deux instituts
UE/Turquie : La révolution ferroviaire turque est en marche
by Acturca
Europolitique (Belgique) 8 mars 2013 Par Markus Bernath La Turquie investit massivement dans sa plaque tournante des transports. C’est dans ce cadre que s’ouvre la foire EurAsiarail, le 7 mars à Istanbul. Les appels d’offres pour des lignes à grande vitesse dans 15 provinces du pays d’ici 2016 mettent en concurrence les constructeurs ferroviaires tels
Turkish President Gül includes minority leader on Sweden trip
from Hurriyet Daily News
In the first ever state visit by a Turkish head of state, President Abdullah Gül will..
Erdoğan, Zionism and Israel
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Society for Linguistic Anthropology: Submissions Open Sapir Book Prize 2013
Edward Sapir Book Prize
Submission Deadline: May 1, 2013
The Edward Sapir Book Prize was established in 2001 and is awarded to a book that makes the most significant contribution to our understanding of language in society, or the ways in which language mediates historical or contemporary sociocultural processes. Beginning in 2012, the Sapir Prize has been awarded annually.
Submissions are now open for the 2013 prize. The SLA invites books with conceptual and theoretical focus, as well as ethnographic and descriptive works. Single-or multi-author books – but not edited collections – are eligible. Books must have been published between June 2011 and December 31, 2012 to be eligible for the 2013 award. Any given book is eligible only in one round of competition.
Three copies of books submitted for consideration should be sent to the address below by May 1, 2013. (Publishers will often send them at the author’s request.) A committee appointed by the president of the SLA will evaluate all submissions. The winner will be determined by late summer 2013 and the author and publisher notified in advance of the AAA annual meeting. The Sapir Prize will be formally awarded at the SLA Business Meeting during the AAA Annual Meeting in 2013.
Three copies of books submitted for consideration should be sent to:
Norma Mendoza-Denton
President, Society for Linguistic Anthropology
The School of Anthropology
1009 East South Campus Drive
P.O.Box 210030
Tucson, AZ 85721-0030
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Society for Linguistic Anthropology: Submissions Open Sapir Book Prize 2013
Edward Sapir Book Prize
Submission Deadline: May 1, 2013
The Edward Sapir Book Prize was established in 2001 and is awarded to a book that makes the most significant contribution to our understanding of language in society, or the ways in which language mediates historical or contemporary sociocultural processes. Beginning in 2012, the Sapir Prize has been awarded annually.
Submissions are now open for the 2013 prize. The SLA invites books with conceptual and theoretical focus, as well as ethnographic and descriptive works. Single-or multi-author books – but not edited collections – are eligible. Books must have been published between June 2011 and December 31, 2012 to be eligible for the 2013 award. Any given book is eligible only in one round of competition.
Three copies of books submitted for consideration should be sent to the address below by May 1, 2013. (Publishers will often send them at the author’s request.) A committee appointed by the president of the SLA will evaluate all submissions. The winner will be determined by late summer 2013 and the author and publisher notified in advance of the AAA annual meeting. The Sapir Prize will be formally awarded at the SLA Business Meeting during the AAA Annual Meeting in 2013.
Three copies of books submitted for consideration should be sent to:
Norma Mendoza-Denton
President, Society for Linguistic Anthropology
The School of Anthropology
1009 East South Campus Drive
P.O.Box 210030
Tucson, AZ 85721-0030
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Open Anthropology Cooperative Blog Posts: On Chagnon and My Field Experiende
First off, power scares and sickens me. I don't associate myself with people who relish and strive for it. Power-trippers make my blood boil and turn me into a confrontational savage.
I was a victim of departmental politics years ago, and it was an experience I would not wish on the worst of my enemies. It was the first time I got disillusioned with anthropology as my chosen career. Anthropology, from studying to publishing, is a matter of numbers like politics, where the powerful majority reigns. If most of the peer-reviewers of a journal don't like what one writes because of his theoretical leaning, ideological tendency, different method that goes against the prevailing grains, and intellectual honesty that critiques the revered and all-mighty.
I first read about Chagnon from a British paper a week ago. It was posted by a friend on Facebook. I wondered why his works were never introduced to us in college. I guess Rosaldo's was enough a material on the culture of warfare, fierceness, and status symbol in our Political Anthropology class. Maybe our ex-nun professor found the anthropology of killing and headhunting too much for our fresh minds and for her Christian belief. For sure, I learned a lot about political advocacy in that class.
I don't question Chagnon's works and those of his critics. I'm neutral. My recent experience in the field has influenced my understanding of the issue involving objectivity and advocacy. I spent six months in Southern Philippines after receiving a grant from a food manufacturing company to study the food culture of the major indigenous group in that region. I thought it was a good opportunity to try out my long-held belief that the best ones to study a culture are those who belong to that culture.
I went to the field with the intent to train and teach some of the locals about anthropology, ethnography, data-gathering, cross-checking, recording, and writing. I liked how it turned out. I was able to make three local "anthropologists" in just a month. If I am intellectually dishonest, I can praise myself or my experiment a success.
What happened really was that I only extended the friction prevalent among professional anthropologists to the locals I thought would produce a different result because of the different method used.
One of my trainees did not want to write about the dirty foods they eat such as papaitan, a goat stew with goat shit. Well, it was not really a shit yet because they used the digested food still inside the goat's intestine. It smelled like shit though. It was obvious to me that he did not want his people to be called shit-eaters.
Another trainee did not want to write about their local sources of protein: snakes, monkeys, and rice field rats. He was too proud of his "culture," where spaghetti, chicken macaroni salad, and leche flan were also served during special occasions. He did not want outsiders to think they were still savages.
The last one thought and processed things freely and without pride-induced paranoia. He linked honesty to objectivity. Science to him was what he saw again and again. He wrote everything he knew and saw. I found out from him that different kinds of worms were local delicacies his group still craved. I did not expect him to be silenced and ostracized.
The first two trainees reported the intellectually honest one to their chieftain. They reasoned that people like him proved what the Christians, the Mining company operating in the area, the outsiders had been saying that they needed to be educated and their culture changed.
Before the guy quit, he told his community that to record their vanishing culture for the sake of posterity, they had to write everything good or bad about their ways. The most profound was when he asked, "How will our people in the future know who and what we really are?" I think he made sense.
What I experienced in that field was just a microcosm of what is happening in the field of anthropology-- objectivity is selective and honesty is relative. Because the South American governments use Chagnon's works to support their exploitative development projects and policies, does it mean he is a bad anthropologist? Should anthropologists become advocates of the people they study?
The advocacy of his critics is commendable, but I don't agree with the idea that advocating includes denying the truth and questioning scientific methods. I still think objectivity is possible in advocacy. For that reason alone, I cannot consider the criticism on Chagnon a total nuisance.
If you go to the village of Illongots, you will find many who will question the veracity of Rosaldo's works. They are those who don't romanticize headhunting and the savagery of their culture. They are those who are paranoid of what outsiders will say about them. Some will find the idea of "noble savages" an intellectual tokenism. Others will express in a crisp English their Anglican belief in the Commandments.
I think intellectual honesty that has no tinge of paranoia and self-interest plus objective advocacy that does not take sides but offers an avenue for a compromise, if linked together, will produce a sound, relevant anthropology.
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The Subversive Archaeologist: Old New World News: The Great Inca Rebellion That Nobody Knew About for 400 years!
If this is old hat for you, feel free to browse the Subversive Archaeologist for something you didn't know before. BUT, for you who, like me, were one of the last people on the planet to still think that Pizarro and a couple of hundred treasure hunters single-handedly [well, I guess that would be 200 handedly] brought down the Inca Empire, read on and feast on the video embedded here, courtesy of the United States Public Broadcasting System.This film, The Great Inca Rebellion, tells the story of two Peruvian archaeologists who undertook excavation of a huge Inca cemetery on the outskirts of Lima, and who, in the early 2000s found compelling evidence for events that one had only imagined must have occurred during Pizzaro's rape of the Inca Empire. Instead of a couple of hundred swashbuckling Spaniards overthrowing the Inca and his empire, Pizarro and his men did so with the willing assistance of those groups who had fallen under the thumb of the aforementioned Inca, Atahualpa. They say that history is written by the victors. In this case you might even want to say that history was rewritten over and over again by the victors, to such a degree that the hired help just disappeared from everyone's consciousness, leaving Pizarro making bank to the detriment of the 'heathens.' And so, when it came time for the archaeologists to interpret what they were seeing in the most-recent stratigraphic position in this cemetery, they needed to think well 'outside the box' of history. If you were previously unaware of this work, you'll be as impressed as I was by the detective work, even before the forensic ringers from the States appear on the scene.This is a story about some present-day and archaeological 'local heroes.' Prepare to be impressed and heartened by the outcome. The bastards who razed the Inca Empire didn't do it without some serious assistance. [Much, it turns out, as in the case of Hernán Cortés, who ransacked the Aztecs ONLY with the help of a multitude of disaffected nearby peoples that had been previously conquered by Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin (A.K.A. Montezuma or Moctezuma) c. 1466--29 June 1520.] Watch The Great Inca Rebellion on PBS. See more from NOVA. Thank you for your continued support!SA announces new posts on the Subversive Archaeologist's facebook page (mirrored on Rob Gargett's news feed), on Robert H. Gargett's Academia.edu page, Rob Gargett's twitter account, and his Google+ page. A few of you have already signed up to receive email when I post. Others have subscribed to the blog's RSS feeds. You can also become a 'member' of the blog through Google Friend Connect. Thank you for your continued patronage. You're the reason I do this.
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Comment is free: The Joris Luyendijk banking blog | guardian.co.uk: What London's bankers really think about the bonus cap
When asked to speak frankly on condition of anonymity, how do the City's finance workers respond to the EU plan to restrict payouts?Like Fight Club, the first rule of finance is you don't talk about finance. Hence the views of the bankers expressed here – asked about how the EU bonus cap will affect the City – are anonymous. What's more, as the financial sector is huge and hugely diverse, it the cap will affect different people differently, depending on their activity, rank and their bank's nationality.It was striking how virtually every interviewee professed great confidence that their bank would find a way around any new rules. Equally striking was just how depressed the atmosphere in large areas of the major banks seems to be these days. But perhaps most surprising was that even those in favour of more stringent regulation – of whom there are more than you might think – were in near-unanimous agreement that this cap was not helpful. What we need is "smart weapons" specifically targeting the toxic corners of finance, they said; what we get is carpet-bombing.Equity sales (director level) at major bank (male, mid 40s)People on the trading floor talk about the cap, absolutely. There is an understanding that the political class must be seen to be doing something. But this idea that all investment bankers are the same, that our only wish in life is to take as much risk as we can, all for that number on bonus day … I am in equity, meaning we recommend and trade shares for institutional investors. There is no risk I could take, even if I wanted to, in order to increase revenue. It's all just bloody hard work.I hear colleagues wonder: if Mr Brussels cuts my pay to such a degree, do I still want to deal with the pressure, still put in the hours where I get up at 5am and not leave the office before 8pm? There is great confidence that banks will find ways around this, though – they always do. I hear people talk about setting up their own company and contracting themselves out to the bank.Financial recruiter (male, early 30s)Clients I talk to were genuinely shocked when the news came out. They were expecting a cap of maybe three times salary. Everyone is sticking their heads in the sand, for now. Still, what are people's options? If you are a bog-standard trader you make maybe £400k, of which £150k is base pay. With this cap that goes to £300k. So after tax you get £50k less. Are you really going to move to New York or Asia for £50k? Senior people have families; it's not only money. Also, if you are trading European markets from New York, that means the night desk for you, with the time difference.All the talent is in London. If, as a bank or hedge fund, you move to a much smaller centre and you need to fill a role, your options are so much more limited. People like London. Maybe not now, after four months of rain and cold, but this is a nice place to live.No one really knows about this EU cap. We hear it is postponed to 2014 and there's lots of confusion still. Banks are all working for ways around it so I'm sure I won't be as bad as people say. Then again, mate, the market is fucked. No one has any visibility, comps [pay] are tumbling, caps everywhere. The industry is on its knees.By "no visibility" I mean as in people work hard but have no idea if they will get paid, if markets will really improve, if industry is fundamentally changing etc. These guys are not used to be in the dark like that. It is quite telling that everyone is depressed and worried yet no one seems to know where we're heading. Early signs of optimism – "it will all be OK eventually" – have all but disappeared.Investment strategist at boutique firm (male, early 30s)This is obviously good for smaller boutiques who are unlikely to be affected by these regulations and can pay in hard cash – such as ourselves!The public seem to see bonuses as rewards for exceptional performance but, really, they are more about giving banks flexibility. I think the cap is likely to push up salaries, making the business model of large banks even more unstable and susceptible to economic swings. It is so much harder to lower salaries. Because if it were easy to adjust base pay, it would become almost, well, a bonus?Ultimately the only solution to systemic risk is to break apart the big banks and remove any sort of government backstop.Former structured products builder at major bank (male, late 30s)I don't think I would have left if the bonus cap had come into effect during my time at the bank. I have always been grateful for what I was getting. I'd say we'd have lost 10-20% of our staff … Younger people don't mind moving, but I have a family. I wouldn't have liked to work in the US and Asia is too far away.I would work with trading floors in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Scandinavia. Traders there get a really good salary, for local standards, but a bonus of maybe 25-75%, max. The atmosphere is quite different from London. So, yes, huge bonuses create a bonus culture. Still, many of these European banks blew up.What will happen with the cap: the greedy talent will go into hedge funds and private equity. That's where the real money is. And hedge funds and PE are still virtually unregulated.Managing director (advisory) at major European bank (male, late 40s)Base salaries have doubled or tripled over the past years, making bonuses less important. Still, without a bonus I'd have to sell my house, eventually. Also, there are school fees. Many people are in this position.I am in "advisory", acting as middleman between corporations in need of loans and investors looking for a place to put their money. I work hard, sometimes coming home at 6am, just when my wife wakes up.I am confident the bank will continue to find ways to pay us what we deserve. If not I will have to reconsider my options. Leave Europe, leave banking. The thing is, my clients are in Europe and I need to see them in person, regularly. Flying in and out from the US or Asia just doesn't work.Setting up a boutique would save me from all the compliance; with all the new regulation this is now taking insane amounts of time. But striking out for myself doesn't work either, as my clients want access to a big balance sheet.Corporate finance analyst at partially state-owned bank (female, mid 20s)Your bonus is your job, they have told us at the bank. Seriously, what can we do? There just aren't any jobs to go to. My base salary is £45k. Bonuses? Well, for people like us it's maybe a few percent, which makes us, let's say, not overly concerned with the bonus cap; what's there to cap? Yes, I make twice what a policeman makes; then again, I work twice his hours. If he takes two jobs, we make the same.Quite apart from any bonus cap, there is now a deep and growing divide between the American giants who can still pay big bucks for the best talent, and the other big banks. Maybe Deutsche Bank can cling on; the rest of us in Europe and Britain now are decidedly in the second league. Barclays can keep up, perhaps. We'll see.Vice-president at cash equities firm (male, 30s) I am a basically leftwing guy and this cap is pissing me off a lot more than I thought it would. My income won't be affected but it's a measure that makes basically no sense at all except as a bunch of politicians wanting to generate headlines by doing a high-profile "screw you" to an unpopular constituency. This cap is going to move activity out of the regulated sector.Why are bonuses so important to us? When you're all in by 2pm and you've made 90 phone calls on a deal, the thing that gets you to make 50 more is the fact that the team all know that we need to put in the effort and we'll all get paid. It's an awful thing to see, the way that the wind goes out of a dealing floor at some point in the year when it becomes clear that [usually because of a loss somewhere else in the bank] the pool is gone."Managing director on trading floor of US bank in London, (female, late 30s)People are so battered by the recent waves of redundancies that they seem to have simply put the bonus cap on to one side. Recently we lost over 25% of people at my level, so if you ask around about a cap that may go into effect in 2014, they will [say]: let's see if I'm still around by then.Generally speaking, people expect our bank to find a way. If we can come up with solutions for the new Basel III capital rules and all the other regulation, then we'll work something out. What seems sure, though, is that the "global heads" who are not tied to Europe will all move back to the United States.Derivatives trader at major bank (male, early 40s)This cap threatens to affect me considerably, yes. I took this job under the assumption that at some point in the future I will be making several multiples of my salary. The cap puts that under threat.It's ridiculous to think that a cap stops risk-taking. You want traders to be as aggressive as they can and make the bank as much money as possible, within their risk limits. Traders are like tigers, and their risk limits their cages. It's about policing those cages. Risk management needs to be independent, meaning traders' bosses can't overrule them.Remuneration is becoming so complex. Part of your pay is deferred stock, so you need to ask: how will the bank perform overall? Are you at a subsidiary or the parent company, and how far is one from the other? These days a job interview is really a two-way affair. Does the bank want you, and do you want the bank?Former Treasury officer in bailed-out bank (male, early 50s)Back when I was at the bank, the bonus drove you to take risk and make money, and it was a symbol of the "big swinging dick". Looking at how people reacted to the bonus austerity after 2008, there was a sense of the remuneration not being sufficient to entice you out of bed in the morning. So were an effective cap to induce a sense of lethargy, then it would serve to reduce risk taking.An effective bonus cap in 2008 and before might have helped, at the margin. But in my understanding the cap is only restricting the short-term cash element. If stock markets reward high profits and risk with a higher share price, then management at these banks who receive large stock-related bonuses will still have an incentive to take risk.Joris Luyendijk is an anthropologist who has been studying the City since the credit crunch. Read more of his findings at www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/joris-luyendijk-banking-blogExecutive pay and bonusesBankingBanking reformFinancial sectorLondonJoris Luyendijkguardian.co.uk © 2013 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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Shenzhen Noted: the shenzhen gospel
Swedish missionary, Theodore Hamberg arrived in Hong Kong on March 19, 1846. The following year, he joined what became known as the Basel Mission, focusing on converting Hakka communities to Christianity. Indeed, Hamberg… Read More →
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CONNECTED in CAIRO: Understanding the Music of Revolt
Egypt’s popular music remains filled with calls for both national unity and social justice, writes Ted Swedenburg in an article titled “Egypt’s Music of Protest: From Sayyid Darwish to DJ Haha” in a recent edition of Middle East Report, but its role in the revolution is not quite the way Western media has tended to portray [...]
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Arctic anthropology: Supporting Visual Anthropology, Tromsø
Dear readers, some of you may remember the film on Khanty fishing in the Yamal-Nenets Okrug, Siberia, Russia by an Estonian graduate, Janno Simm. That film “Autumn on Ob River” came out in 2004 as a masters work at the … Continue reading →
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Erkan in the Army now...: Politics roundup: PKK expected to free Turkish prisoners tomorrow…
PKK to Free Turkish Prisoners Tuesday — Naharnet
Kurdish talks leak obtained through our party: BDP’s co-chair
from Hurriyet Daily News
The co-chair of the Peace and Development Party Demirtaş announced via Twitter.
Lay down your arms, conduct politics in Parliament: Turkish PM Erdoğan
from Hurriyet Daily News
Turkey’s government will act as interlocutor during the ongoing peace process only if PKK lays down its arms.
High Stakes for Erdogan In Turkish Talks With PKK – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
Turkish PM Erdoğan wants no show at captives’ release
from Hurriyet Daily News
The release of public servants and soldiers kidnapped by the PKK, should not be turned into a show, Turkish PM Erdoğan warned.
Turkish PM Erdoğan wants no show at captives’ release
from Hurriyet Daily News
The release of public servants and soldiers kidnapped by the PKK, should not be turned into a show, Turkish PM Erdoğan warned.
Turkish PM unveils roadmap for charter alliances
from Hurriyet Daily News
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has clearly laid out his alternative plans for the process of creating the new Constitution…
Judiciary reform bid sparks controversy
from Hurriyet Daily News
Turkey’s fourth judicial package hits Parliament amid growing controversy and disappointment as many expect it will fail to meet expectations
BDP may discuss presidential system
from Hurriyet Daily News
The Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) has given the green light to the ruling Justice and Development.
CHP leader meets president amid heated ‘peace’ debate
from Hurriyet Daily News
Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu met with President Abdullah Gül yesterday
Turkey and the Kurds: the era of mass hypnosis is over | Yavuz Baydar
from World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Yavuz Baydar
There are no taboos left on the Kurdish issue and Recep Tayyip Erdogan knows the geopolitical importance of resolving it
Since the start of this year, the Justice and Development party (AKP) has emerged from what looked like an impasse over Turkey’s three-decade-long Kurdish conflict. The pace of change has been intense.
But slow-motion progress in the background has often been overlooked: over the course of 15 years the public debate, backed by small-scale reforms, has evolved from the archaic militarist jargon of “there are no Kurds here, only mountain Turks”. Ankara is now conducting direct negotiations with the jailed PKK leader, Abdullah Ocalan – once demonised as a baby killer and chief terrorist by a venomously nationalist “mainstream” media.
Justice minister defends new judicial package, citing EHRC criteria
from Hurriyet Daily News
The Justice minister calls on parties to obey the European Court of Human Rights criteria instead of criticizing the new judicial package sent to Parliament
La décennie Erdogan à la loupe (1/5) – L’AKP, architecte de la nouvelle Turquie ?
by Acturca
France Culture (Radio France) 04.03.2013 Culturesmonde par Florian Delorme Depuis quelques années, la Turquie est vue comme un laboratoire qui a su allier religion et modernité, Islam et démocratie. Etat laïc dirigé par un « islamiste modéré », la Turquie constitue aux yeux du monde un « modèle » qui pourrait – voire qui devrait
Diyarbakır police learning Kurdish
from Hurriyet Daily News
Police officers in Diyarbakır are learning Kurdish upon the request..
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