'" she alleged inQuiet on Set. While her mom and dad stuck up for her, she added, "I mean,thatstuck with me. 'You can't be the fat one.' I still hear those words in my head to this day."
I argue that this ethnographic case can also be read as a critique of the notion of language as a cultural repository popularized in recent linguistic anthropological literature on language endangerment. For the youth in El Mayor, indigenous identity is not located in the Cucapá language but in...
Sindawe pauses for a long moment. “We are good then… As long as you stick to that story.” A trio of eight-pointed metal stars scuttle down the gangplank and head out after Zoamai. Both men grimace at each other. Tension is lifted, so they make deals with the Aspis Consortium to...
Causes of global warming 12: carbon dioxide, water vapor, and methane 13: using forests as fuel, for building, furniture, etc.The use of 14 on crops 153. Effects of global warmingDestruction of important 16 systemsLoss and endangerment of many 17 184. Solutions to global warmingTo reduce ...
Prosecutors brought six alternative charges against each of the cops; none of them stuck— neither of the counts of murder, nor the two of manslaughter; not homicide, not reckless endangerment. On Friday, as TV cameras recorded the verdict in an Albany, N.Y., courtroom, the only words ...
The related issues of language endangerment and language death are explored in Chapter9. 6. It is commonly assumed that the Roman Empire was a monolingual one, in which everyone spoke a unified Latin language—or, somewhat more accurately, that it was divided into two large linguistic zones, ...
Medically assisted reproduction opens a brave new world of options (we have no words for it!): the ‘egg donor mother’ or the ‘surrogate mother’; to put it into a formula: ‘My mother was a Spanish egg donor’ or ‘my mother was an Indian surrogate mother’. Thus by bio-...