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“See, Your Grandma Has Two Mother Tongues…or Only One?”: Shame, Dialect, and Shifting Mother Tongues in Sicily

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the Sicilian town of Palermo, two main languages are spoken, Italian and Sicilian. But people are often unwilling to consider Sicilian a language, taking it instead as an inferior “dialect.” Linguistic choice is associated with two broad, competing discourses about Sicilian culture and ethnicity: discourses of heritage on the one hand and ...
Paola Tiné
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Sign Language as “Mother Tongue Orphan”: A Challenge to Raciolinguistic Multiculturalism in Singapore

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the contested status of “sign language” in Singapore by exploring deaf people's experiences of the “Mother Tongues”—the state's designation for the official languages of Mandarin, Malay, and Tamil—with a particular focus on the relationships that deaf Chinese Singaporeans have with Mandarin.
Timothy Y. Loh
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This Language Is Mine: US College Students Navigating Contradictions of “Mother Tongue” and Heritage Language

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this essay, I draw on both autoethnography and ethnographic research among college students studying their Heritage Language (HL)—or Heritage Language Learners (HLLs)—at a US university. I explore the felt contradictions and tensions that get voiced when attempting to navigate the uneasy relationship between two terms: “mother tongue” and ...
Arnaaz Khwaja
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Toward an Ethnography of God

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, anthropologists and theologians have been engaging in conversation with one another. Building on, and branching out from, that conversation, this article calls for a careful ethnographic engagement with not just “God talk” (the literal meaning of theology) but also with the figure of God itself.
Amira Mittermaier
wiley   +1 more source

Old Bones in New Databases: Historical Insights Into Race, Statistics, and Ancestry Estimation in Anthropology

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the persistence of race in biological anthropology, particularly in the context of ancestry estimation using the Fordisc software. Despite efforts to move away from race‐based typologies since the mid‐20th century, historical notions of race continue to shape scientific methods and technologies in anthropology. By tracing
Iris Clever, Lisette Jong
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“Like We're Meeting the Ancestors”: Toward an Lˈnucentric Archaeology in Miˈkmaˈki

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We explore the possibilities for an archaeology that is relevant to, and empowering of, Indigenous futures by reflecting on four seasons of archaeological fieldwork, our encounters with Lˈnu (or Miˈkmaw) material culture, our experiences returning to ancestral Lˈnu places, and our engagements with sociocultural and archaeological ...
Michelle Lelièvre, Cynthia Martin, Mallory Corbett, Sarah Brooks, Hannah Martin   +4 more
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Comparing nurse-led and rheumatologist-led care for rheumatoid arthritis patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. [PDF]

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Gu W, Ding X, Han X, Jiang J, Li H.
europepmc   +1 more source