2021-11-04
2021-10-31
Halloween goes global - chronicle with insights from anthropology
https://www.sapiens.org/culture/halloween-history-global/ was published in 2018, but still pinpoints the meanings and motives today for this many-sided, globalizing event: "How Halloween Has Traveled the Globe. Whether trick-or-treating in the United States or costume play celebrations in Japan, Allhallows Eve has taken many forms as its traditions travel the world." By Amber Dance.
2021-10-27
headstones maker at work
Physical traces of past centuries can be seen in stonework. Cemeteries offer a kind of sociological gallery of stonecutters. This story looks at headstone carving by hand in 2021, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hand-carved-gravestones
2021-09-23
archaeology from melting snows - Mongolia prehistory
Story of human activity once buried in snow and ice but now revealed as the Earth heats up.
2021-09-10
outreach & archaeology topics
crossposting from D. Stapp on September 9, 2021
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The Journal of Northwest Anthropology has today released an edited collection of 24 essays focused on reaching out to the public and others. We are making an e-copy available to those who are interested on our website for no cost. The essays are focused on projects, writings, curricula, and recommendations. You can get your e-copy of How Do We Reach More? Sharing Cultural and Archaeological Research with Others at the following address:
www.northwestanthropology.com/
While many of us do a lot of outreach, I think it is safe to say we need to do more to make this world a better place. I'd be interested in my colleagues thoughts on strategies they have used to reach more.
2021-08-28
English spelling - some hurdles for new learners
FB posting of poems that embody the wacky spelling of our shared language, with preface by young person with Dysgraphia - writing/spelling difficulties,
Open poem lines:
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, laugh, and through.
And cork and work and card and ward
And font and front and word and sword
Well done! And now if you wish, perhaps
To learn of less familiar traps,
Beware of heard, a dreadful word...2021-07-25
Archaeology beneath today's Istanbul
Five-minute radio story to hear online, or to view the transcript with many vivid photos to illustrate the story of archaeology that lies beneath the city streets, https://www.npr.org/2021/07/23/1016814868/beneath-istanbul-archaeologists-explore-an-ancient-citys-byzantine-basements
2021-03-01
Language and Zoom remote video communication, American Sign Language
The interplay of sign language and telecommunication methods and styles and tastes features here,
2021-02-25
Why designating a language "endangered" may lead to problems
Paper presented 2/2021 via online platform and then the source text shared on LinkedIn:
Rethinking the Language of Language Endangerment
Gerald Roche (Senior Research Fellow, La Trobe University)2021-02-19
films in Native Languages - LOTE (Languages Other Than English)
This is an engaging article and overview to the subject.
Excerpt
... .Another notable choice was for the 2021 opening night film, Waikiki (2020), directed by Christopher Kahunahana. This film took us all on an emotional and harrowing journey that guided us to introspection. Correa, who was born and raised in Hawaiʻi, described his experience watching Waikiki: "I watched it and I cried. It spoke to the experience that happens to a lot of us in Hawai'i. The film itself is centered around this idea of mental illness in society and disconnection from the land. I think that is something that affects all Native Hawaiians. We're always trying to get back to the land. We are always trying to find that connection."
These films made a lasting impression because language is a grounds for and a form of intimacy. For those of us who live away from our motherland, it is a way to reconnect with our family and culture. For those of us whose motherland has been taken away, it roots us to our land.
2021-02-11
book and documentary (Kyushu) - 40 years of Japan fieldwork
Promoting her latest book, Prof. Joy Hendry talks of her long-term ties to the people of rural Japan [extremis.com 2021 An Affair with a Village],
book and documentary (Kyushu) - 40 years of Japan fieldwork
Promoting her latest book, Prof. Joy Hendry and her long-term ties to the people of rural Japan,
2021-01-20
Human language wonders
- JRR Tolkien's many languages (constructed languages) for Middle Earth (about 14 minutes), https://youtu.be/VFlyQk_uVAI
- European reporter in USA [taken from his early January 2021 Tweet]: From Dalton, Georgia to Washington, D.C., here's my coverage for @AP_GMS of last week's events in French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Luxembourgish, in that order.https://twitter.com/i/status/1349025211518246912
2021-01-03
archaeology - 12 sites featured in Smithsonian Institution book
[description from publication page 1/2021]
A new book Incredible Archaeology: Inspiring Places From Our Human Past, out this month from Smithsonian Books, explores some of the world's most spectacular ancient wonders. (Alpineguide/Alamy). SMITHSONIANMAG.COM | Nov. 30, 2020, 9 a.m.
Incredible Archaeology: Inspiring Places from Our Human Past is a global tour of ancient sites, from the famous and much-visited Machu Picchu to lesser-traversed places, like North America's Viking Settlement, L'anse Aux Meadows, or the rock paintings of the San people in South Africa's Game Pass Shelter. The collection, offered by Smithsonian Books and assembled by writer and editor Paul Bahn, includes breathtaking photos of temples entangled in jungle, settlements once concealed by rising water, and ancient cities long abandoned. Incredible Archaeology takes readers on an arm-chair journey to far-flung corners of the globe and spans thousands of years, from our earliest ancestors to the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
These selected 12 places sampled from Incredible Archeology are a testament to human ingenuity and perseverance.
The Viking Settlement of L'Anse Aux Meadows
The Great Houses of Chaco Canyon in New Mexico held great symbolic and ceremonial importance to the Chacoan people. (Efrain Padro / Alamy)
The Mountaintop City of Monte Albán
The Geoglyph Nazca Lines
The Iron Age Settlement at Biskupin
The Sanctuary of Delphi
The Twin Temples at Abu Simbel
Game Pass Shelter
The City of Ur
Cave Temples and Monasteries at Ajanta
Aboriginal Art in Kakadu National Park
Gyeongju: Museum Without Walls
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