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I’ve set up a photo pool on Flickr as a public archive of Great Diagrams in Anthropology, Linguistics, and Social Theory.

Consider this your invitation to contribute!

(“Partial personal semantic network for Tony D’Abrosca” by Claudia Strauss in What Makes Tony Run? Schemas as Motives Reconsidered)

Tuamatuan Conception of the Cosmos, by Paiore.  Inspiration for Margaret Mead’s fieldwork [...]

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I’ll be presenting a paper at UCLA’s CLIC/LISO (Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture / Language, Interaction, and Social Organization) conference May 22-24.
I’ll also be presenting another, different paper at The University of Arizona’s Linguistics and Anthropology Symposium between May 9th – 11th.

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I’m excited about the AAA Annual Meeting this week. Actually, I’ve been excited about it since this spring, when I first learned that the conference is being held at the Wardman Park Marriott, just a 10 minute bike ride (6.5 without traffic laws) from home on the GW campus. (okay- my actual home [...]

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Here’s a literature review I’ve been writing for a long-term research project on legal anthropology and linguistic ideologies. Enjoy.
A History of Legal Anthropology and the Next Generation of Research at the Intersection of Language, Ideology, and Power
I think that title may need some work.  Leave a comment if you have any thoughts on that.

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A list of the Lewis N. Cotlow Field Research Fund’s 2007 grant recipients has been posted to the GW Anthropology Department’s website. Here are links to my abstract, proposal (pdf), and other sample proposals.

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I gave this presentation (.pdf) at the GW Anthropology Department’s Student Research Conference on October 26th.

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This is the script of a play that I co-wrote with Michelle Gorman, Michaela Grillo, and Chris Bloechl, and which our Anthropology in Performance class staged in May, 2007. Professor Allen teaches the course. [...or "taught" -- past tense? I hope not.] I’m really proud [...]

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An article I wrote last year (as a sophomore) has just been published in the Spring 2007 volume of Inquiry, GW’s undergraduate research journal. The title: A Constitution in Search of a Philosophy: Anthropological Perspectives on Judicial Interpretation.
I presented an earlier version of this paper at the 2006 University Writing Symposium. Thanks to [...]

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