Working Group Reading List
Introduction (August 28, 2018)
Michael Lucey, “Proust and Language-in-Use,” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 48, no. 2 (2015): 261-279.
Michael Silverstein, “Shifters, Linguistic Categories, and Cultural Description,” in Keith H. Basso and Henry A. Selby, eds., Meaning in Anthropology (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1976), 11-55.
Jillian R. Cavanaugh, “Indexicalities of Language in Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels: Dialect and Italian as Markers of Social Value and Difference,” in Grace Russo Bullaro and Stephanie Love, eds., The Works of Elena Ferrante: Reconfiguring the Margins (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), 45-70.
Translation/Transduction (September 11-13, 2018)
Lisa Mitchell, “From the Art of Memory to the Practice of Translation: Making Languages Parallel,” in Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India: The Making of a Mother Tongue (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009), 158-188.
Elliott Colla, “Dragomen and checkpoints,” The Translator 21, no. 2 (2015): 132-153.
Anthony K. Webster, “‘Everything Got Kinda Strange after a While:’ Some Reflections on Translating Navajo Poetry that Should not be Translated,” Anthropology and Humanism 40, no. 1 (2015): 72-93.
Elizabeth A. Povinelli, “Radical Worlds: The Anthropology of Incommensurability and Inconceivability,” Annual Review of Anthropology 30 (2001): 319-34.
Michael Silverstein, “Translation, Transduction, Transformation: Skating ‘Glissando’ on Thin Semiotic Ice,” in Paula G. Rubel and Abraham Rosman, eds., Translating Cultures: Perspectives on Translation and Anthropology (New York: Berg, 2003), 75-105.
Susan Gal, “Processes of Translation and Demarcation in Legal Worlds,” in Elizabeth Mertz, William K. Ford, and Gregory Matoesian, eds., Translating the Social World for Law: Linguistic Tools for a New Legal Realism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), 216-234.
Elliott Colla, “The People Want,” Middle East Report 42, no. 263 (2012), https://www.merip.org/mer/mer263/people-want.
Mairi Louise McLaughlin, “News translation past and present: silent witness and invisible intruder,” Perspectives: Studies in Translatology (2015): 1-18.
Saul Schwartz, “Writing Chiwere: Orthography, literacy, and language revitalization,” Language & Communication 61 (2018): 75-87.
Tobias Warner, “How Mariama Bâ Became World Literature: Translation and the Legibility of Feminist Critique,” PMLA 131, no. 5 (2016): 1239-55.
Sound (October 9-11, 2018)
Nicholas Harkness, “Introduction,” in Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014), 1-25.
Steven Feld, “To You They Are Birds, To Me They Are Voices in the Forest” in Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982), 44-85.
David Samuels, Louise Meintjes, Ana Maria Ochoa, and Thomas Porcello, “Soundscapes: Toward A Sounded Anthropology,” Annual Review of Anthropology 39 (2010): 329-345.
Ana María Ochoa Gautier, “Introduction: The Ear and the Voice in the Lettered City’s Geophysical History,” in Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Columbia (Durham: Duke University Press), 1-29.
Ana María Ochoa Gautier, “On Howls and Pitches,” in Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Columbia (Durham: Duke University Press), 31-75.
Ana María Ochoa Gautier, “On the Ethnographic Ear,” in Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Columbia (Durham: Duke University Press), 123-164.
Miyako Inoue, “The Listening Subject of Japanese Modernity and His Audio Double: Citing, Sighting, and Siting the Modern Japanese Woman,” Cultural Anthropology 18, no. 2 (2003): 156-193.
Tom McEnaney, “Real-to-Reel: Social Indexicality, Sonic Materiality, and Literary Media Theory in Eduardo Costa’s Tape Works,” Representations 137 (2017): 143-166.
Amanda Weidman, “The Raw and the Husky: On Timbral Qualia and Ethnolinguistic Belonging,” unpublished manuscript.
Paja Faudree, “What is an Indigenous Author?: Minority Authorship and the Politics of Voice in Mexico,” Anthropological Quarterly 88, no. 1 (2015): 5-35.
Paja Faudree, “Singing for the Spirits: The Annual Day of the Dead Song Contest,” in Singing for the Dead: The Politics of Indigenous Revival in Mexico (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013), 105-140.
Daniel Fisher, “Mediating Kinship: Country, Family, and Radio in Northern Australia,” Cultural Anthropology 24, no. 2 (2009): 280-312.
Charles Hirschkind, “The Ethics of Listening: Cassette-Sermon Audition in Contemporary Cairo,” American Ethnologist 28, no. 3 (2001): 623-649.
Publics (November 13-15, 2018)
Michael Warner, “Publics and Counterpublics,” Public Culture 14, no. 1 (2002): 49-90.
Francis Cody, “Echoes of the teashop in a Tamil newspaper,” Language & Communication 31 (2011): 243-254.
Richard Bauman, “Projecting Presence: Aura and Oratory in William Jennings Bryan’s Presidential Races,” in E. Summerson Carr and Michael Lempert, eds., Scale: Discourse and Dimensions of Social Life (Oakland: University of California Press, 2016), 25-51.
Michael Warner, “Whitman Drunk,” in Publics and Counterpublics (New York: Zone Books, 2002), 269-289.
Asif Agha, “Large and small scale forms of personhood,” Language & Communication 31 (2011): 171-180.
Constantine V. Nakassis, “Rajini’s Finger, Indexicality, and the Metapragmatics of Presence,” Signs and Society 5, no. 2 (2017): 201-242.
Francis Cody, “Populist Publics: Print Capitalism and Crowd Violence beyond Liberal Frameworks,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 35, no. 1 (2015): 50-65.
Nicholas Harkness, “Transducing a Sermon, Inducing Conversion: Billy Graham, Billy Kim, and the 1973 Crusade in Seoul,” Representations 137 (2017): 112-142.
Virginia Jackson, “American Romanticism, Again,” Studies in Romanticism 55, no. 3 (2016): 319-346.
Religion (February 5-7, 2019)
Saba Mahmood, “Religious Reason and Secular Affect: An Incommensurable Divide?” Critical Inquiry 35 (2009): 836-862.
Michael Warner, “The Preacher’s Footing,” in Clifford Siskin and William Warner, eds., This Is Enlightenment (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), 368-383.
E. Summerson Carr, “‘Signs of the Times’: Confession and the Semiotic Production of Inner Truth,” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19 (2013): 34-51.
Dipesh Chakrabarty, “Translating Life-Worlds into Labor and History,” in Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), 72-96.
Michael Allan, “Translation: The Rosetta Stone from Object to Text,” in In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016), 39-54.
Niklaus Largier, “Reweaving the Texture of Perception: Mysticism and the Production of Sensual and Affective Experience,” in Annette Wilke, ed., Constructions of Mysticism as a Universal: Roots and Interactions across Borders (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, forthcoming).
Mayanthi L. Fernando, “Field Notes II: Friday Prayers” and “‘A Memorial to the Future,'” in The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014), 101-144.
Michael Allan, “Literature: How Adab Became Literary,” in In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016), 74-93.
Courtney Handman, “Languages Without Subjects: On the Interior(s) of Colonial New Guinea,” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7, no. 1 (2017): 207-228.
Webb Keane, “The Evidence of the Senses and the Materiality of Religion,” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 14, no. s1 (2008): S110-S127.
Sexuality (March 12-14, 2019)
Michael Silverstein, “‘Cultural’ Concepts and the Language-Culture Nexus,” Current Anthropology 45, no. 5 (2004): 621-652. [Focus on pp. 621-623, 631-634, and 638-640.]
Rusty Barrett, “Speech Play, Gender Play, and the Verbal Artistry of Queer Argots,” unpublished manuscript.
Michael Lucey, “Metapragmatics, Sexuality, and the Novel: Reading Jean Genet’s Querelle,” in Someone: The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Collette to Hervé Guibert (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019), 85-108.
Roshanak Kheshti, “Original Synth,” in Wendy Carlos’s Switched-On Bach (New York: Bloomsbury, forthcoming).
Damon Young, “Ironies of Web 2.0,” unpublished manuscript.
Sara Mameni, “What Are the Iranians Wishing For? Queer Transnational Solidarity in Revolutionary Iran,” Signs 43, no. 4 (2018): 955-978.
Politics (April 2-4, 2019)
Michael Silverstein, “Society, Polity and Language Community: An Enlightenment Trinity in Anthropological Perspective,” Journal of Language and Politics 9, no. 3 (2010): 339-363.
Judith Temkin Irvine and Liz Gunner, “With Respect to Zulu: Revisiting UkuHlonipha,” Anthropological Quarterly 91, no. 1 (2018): 173-208.
Sarah Kessler, “On Ventriloquism, Dummies, and Trump’s Voice,” Sounding Out! (2016), https://soundstudiesblog.com/2016/11/14/trumps-voice/.
Tristram Wolff, “Talking with Texts: Hazlitt's Ephemeral Style,” Representations 137 (2017): 44-67.
History, Politics, and Ethics of Linguistic Anthropology (April 30 - May 2, 2019)
Richard Bauman and Charles L. Briggs, “Introduction,” in Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 1-18.
Jacqueline Urla, Estibaliz Amorrortu, Ane Ortega, Jone Goirigolzarri, “Basque Standardization and the New Speaker: Political Praxis and the Shift Dynamics of Authority and Value,” in Pia Lane, James Costa, and Haley De Korne, eds., Standardizing Minority Languages: Competing Ideologies of Authority and Authenticity in the Global Periphery (New York: Routledge, 2017), 24-46.
Laura R. Graham, “How Should an Indian Speak?: Amazonian Indians and the Symbolic Politics of Language in the Global Public Sphere,” in Kay B. Warren and Jean E. Jackson, eds., Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002), 181-228.
Michael Silverstein, “Of Two Minds About Minding Language in Culture,” in Ned Blackhawk and Isaiah Lorado Wilner, eds., Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018), 147-165.
Audra Simpson, “Why White People Love Franz Boas; or, The Grammar of Indigenous Dispossession,” in Ned Blackhawk and Isaiah Lorado Wilner, eds., Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018), 166-181.