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Oct 27, 2020
What Does Baseball’s Bilingualism Reveal?
A linguistic anthropologist who is also a baseball…
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Oct 9, 2020
What White Power Supporters Hear Trump Saying
The term ‘political correctness’ can be readily deployed…
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Sep 29, 2020
When Deafness Is Not Considered a Deficit
In the Peruvian Amazon, the Maijuna peoples created their…
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Jan 15, 2020
How to Resurrect Dying Languages
Community activists are using creative methods to revive endangered…
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Dec 13, 2019
Can This Indigenous Language Thrive in a Digital Age?
A majority of Paraguayans speak Guaraní despite…
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Mar 19, 2019
The Oldest True Stories in the World
Evidence gathered in recent years shows that some ancient…
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Mar 6, 2019
Where Do ‘New’ Languages Come From?
Anthropologists and linguists are working to understand how…
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Dec 6, 2018
Why Do We Keep Using the Word ‘Caucasian’?
When a term signifies something that does not exist, we…
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Nov 23, 2018
Unraveling an Ancient Code Written In Strings
Andean cultures developed a mysterious form of writing…
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Oct 22, 2018
Primate Vocalizations Are Much More Than Gibberish
Nonhuman primates clearly do more than just screech…
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