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- Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Michigan - Doctoral research program focusing on combining social theory with the analysis of linguistic form. Field description, faculty list, admissions information.
- Linguistic and Semiotic Anthropology at the University of Toronto - Subdivision of the Department of Anthropology. Offers a description of the field, events,and links to resources.
- Society for Linguistic Anthropology - A special section of the American Anthropological Association. Organizational information and list of contents of the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.
- University of Vermont - Offers an undergraduate degree program with a focus on archaeology, physical anthropology, ethnology and linguistic anthropology and minors programs in social anthropology, prehistoric archaeology and linguistic anthropology. Features information on the Consulting Archaeology Program, research program and internships, course descriptions and events. Located in Burlington.
- Michicagoan 2000: Histories and Ideologies of Linguistics - Second annual meeting of graduate students from the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan. Schedule, abstracts.
- Philadelphia Papers on Linguistic Anthropology - Assembled papers on this topic from the 1998 meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Various document formats.
- Topics in Anthropological Linguistics - Concise treatments of various areas of concern in this field, including contact languages and the Whorf hypothesis.
- Anthropology - Offers undergraduate programs in anthropology and linguistic anthropology, and MA and PhD museum studies and anthropology degrees.
- Early American Anthropological Linguistics - Essay written by Kenneth Pike for the journal American Anthropologist. Contains reminiscences of many leading figures of this field in the early 20th century, such as Edward Sapir.
- Brown, Cecil H.- - Research and teaching interests in linguistic anthropology, including ethnobiology, language and culture, and historical-comparative linguistics. Fieldwork among the Huastec and Zapotec speakers of Mexico. Northern Illinois University.
Wikipedia Articles
- Linguistic anthropology - Linguistic anthropology is that branch of anthropology that brings linguistic methods to bear on anthropological problems, linking the analysis of semiotic and particularly linguistic forms and processes (on both small and large scales) to the interpretation of sociocultural processes (again on small and large scales).
- Applied anthropology - Applied anthropology refers to the application of method and theory in anthropology to the analysis and solution of practical problems. Inasmuch as anthropology proper comprises four sub-disciplines -- biological, cultural, linguistic, and archaeological anthropology -- the practical application of any of these sub-disciplines may properly be designated "applied anthropology".
- Tom Boellstorff - Tom Boellstorff is an anthropologist currently based at the University of California, Irvine. In his career to date, his interests have included the anthropology of sexuality, the anthropology of globalization, the anthropology of virtual worlds, Southeast Asian studies, the anthropology of HIV/AIDS, and linguistic anthropology.
- William Jones (anthropologist) - William Jones (1871-1909) A graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover, in 1896, when he received his PhD from Columbia University, he became the fourth person to receive a PhD in linguistic anthropology, twelfth person to receive a PhD in anthropology, and first Native American PhD in anthropology. Jones was part Fox and a specialist in Algonquian languages, particularly known for his extensive collection of Algonquian texts.
- Miyako Inoue (linguistic anthropologist) - Miyako Inoue is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. She is a prominent linguistic anthropologist who combines a concerted focus on social theory with a rigorous analysis of language in social life.