The neighborhood cat is replaying scenes from Apocalypse Now
anthony k webster🐿
@ethnopoetics.bsky.social
linguistic anthropologist, linguistic relativist, philologist, humanist, kayaker, tree grower, midwesterner, purdue alum
This bald cypress is over 800 years old, with over 200 knees, some of them well over 100 years old, Cache River State Natural Area
The Trump administration has begun removing signage from both Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments following its decision to shrink the monuments.
New sign at Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge
Cache River State Natural Area, Heron Pond boardwalk
Elderflora, this bald cypress tree is over 1000 years old, Cache River State Natural Area
It's time for the Trump Administration to uphold its obligations on the Brandon Road Interbasin Project. Illinois has spearheaded this to protect the entire Great Lakes, but they continue to throw up roadblocks. Stop playing political games and move this project forward.
New episode 🚨 James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks to Peter Austin about his career in field linguists and language documentation in Australia, in particular how the role of Indigenous community members has changed over the past 50 years. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2026/08/01/p... #Histlx
Podcast episode 62: Peter Austin
In this interview, we talk to Peter Austin about his career in field linguists and the history of language documentation in Australia, in particular how the role of Indigenous community members has…
hiphilangsci.net
Conklin's paper on "color" terms in Hanunóo (1955), is still the best paper on the topic (his review of Berlin and Kay is pretty good too)
Geoffrey Hughes@geofffhughes.bsky.social · 5d agoAnyway, real heads know the really interesting debates about social constructionism are about things with zero political stakes but that make the civilians look at you like you have an extra eyeball when you bring it up, like color theory.
I saw someone mention this book the other day, which inspired me to revisit it, and I think the book is a bit hit and miss, but her discussion of evolutionary psychology and pinker are very good critiques; though calling Edmund Leach a cultural anthropologist is pretty egregious
Afternoon reading, on the potential solutions for Little Grassy Lake www.mvs.usace.army.mil/Portals/54/d...
This, I should add, is why Matt Damon was such an inspired choice for the role, an actor with the same scruples as Odysseus
anthony k webster🐿@ethnopoetics.bsky.social · 2w agoIt does seem to me that if Odysseus was alive today he would be on television selling crypto
It does seem to me that if Odysseus was alive today he would be on television selling crypto
The arguments against language reclamation haven't changed much in the nearly 20 years I've been working in this field: "It costs too much." "People are choosing to abandon their languages, so let them." "They have no practical use." "It's just sentimental nostalgia." Fuck All That, a thread:
Sometimes It’s O.K. to Let a Language Die
When cultural preservation comes at the expense of speakers’ decisions, sometimes it's O.K. to let a language die.
newyorker.com
Oral arguments debate legality of Bell Smith Springs logging project thesouthern.com/people/oral-...
Oral arguments debate legality of Bell Smith Springs logging project
OZARK — The fate of the McCormick logging project adjacent to Hunting Branch Creek is in the hands of a federal judge after oral arguments took place in court Tuesday.
thesouthern.com
"Like somebody we knew once a long time ago."--Thomas Pynchon
The dates work out, that man in Indiana was my grandfather "Man in Indiana taught his dog how to fly one, now the dog flies him everywhere, a sky chauffeur, wears this li'l sort of outfit, hat, goggles, and so forth..."--Thomas Pynchon
Beautiful weather, took a long run in the country
A settler pastor thought she could go onto the Wind River rez and preach racist shit to the People. She was wrong. www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/tribal-news/...
After a pastor’s comments, Northern Arapaho Tribe tells Christian church to leave
After a controversial sermon earlier this month that encouraged tribal members to denounce their traditional ways, the Northern Arapaho Business Council told leaders from Foundations For Nations Churc...
wyomingpublicmedia.org
Was heading outside and I was confronted by this bit of Wild Kingdom, and I cannot stress enough that that cat is not our cat
I think I know what I'll be doing today. I remember getting The Waterboys' Fisherman's Blues in 1988 (first as a cassette tape and then in 1989 as a CD), it's a good album, and I'm looking forward to listening to the lost recordings.
