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Speaking Places: Language, Mind, and Environment in the Ancash Highlands (Peru)
(2017)
This dissertation explores the relationship between language and environmental practice among Ancash Quechua speakers in the Río Negro watershed of the Cordillera Blanca mountain range in the central Peruvian Andes. Using ...
Black Professionalism: Perception and Metalinguistic Assessment of Black American Speakers' Sociolinguistic Labor
(2022)
Metalinguistic awareness encompasses what a language user knows about the relation of social factors (such as age, gender, or race) to linguistic usage, distribution, meaning, or context of occurrence variance. Such embodied ...
Fishwork in Uganda: A Multispecies Ethnohistory about Fish, People, and Ideas about Fish and People.
(2014)
Located between the dry world of humans and the wet world of fish, the littoral, or shoreline, generates dynamic and sometimes confusing mixtures of people, fish, and ideas about how best to organize life at the shore. By ...