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The trouble with 'Welcome': On the incommensurability of interactional rituals
An influential tradition in linguistics has it that languages are, in some important sense, communicatively equivalent: anything that you can say in one language, you can say in another (modulo trivia… more »
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The trouble with 'Welcome': On the incommensurability of interactional rituals
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Lev Michael wrote 5 months ago: An influential tradition in linguistics has it that languages are, in some important sense, communic … more »
Of tobacco spirits and tobacco changelings: The etymology of seripigari, Part III
Lev Michael wrote 5 months ago: In previous posts (here and here) I have worried the Matsigenka word seripigari ’shaman … more »
Kampan Dilemma
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Lev Michael wrote 6 months ago: I’ve recently been thinking a lot about a dilemma which has been bothering me more and more ov … more »
Of tobacco seers: The etymology of seripigari, part II
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Lev Michael wrote 6 months ago: In my previous post on the etymology of the Matsigenka word seripigari ’shaman’, I argu … more »
Tobacco, intoxication, and many happy returns: The etymology of seripigari, Part I
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Lev Michael wrote 6 months ago: Little did I realize when I first started writing about Matsigenka etymology that there is quite a l … more »
Monosyllabic grunts: A comment on language and racism
Lev Michael wrote 9 months ago: It is hardly news by this point to most students of language that statements about language can serv … more »
Close but no guan: adventures in Matsigenka etymology
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Lev Michael wrote 9 months ago: My conversations with cultural anthropologists working in the Amazon Basin suggest that many of them … more »
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