Summer Blockbuster 3: Avatar - Ep 200

To wrap up our inaugural Summer Blockbuster series, Amber leads us on a mission to Pandora with Avatar (2009). Rather than exploration of the culture of the indigenous Na’vi population (or maybe in addition to), we’ll examine some of the philosophical underpinnings of the franchise and discuss the book that completely changed Amber's intellectual trajectory.

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• “Avatar” Advertising Invades “Bones” Episode “The Gamer in the Grease” (Wall Street Journal)

• Do You Speak Na'vi? Giving Voice To 'Avatar' Aliens (NPR)

• An interview with Paul Frommer, Alien Language Creator for Avatar (Unidentified Sound Object)

• Some highlights of Na’vi (University of Pennsylvania Language Log)

• Avatar: an all-purpose allegory (Foreign Policy)

• Avatar (Rotten Tomatoes)

• Avatar: A Marxist Saga on the Far Distant Planet (Communication, Capitalism, and Critique)

• Orientalism (via Bookshop.org)

• An Introduction to Edward Said, Orientalism, and Postcolonial Literary Studies (Amardeep Singh)

• Orientalism and power: When will we stop stereotyping people? (BBC Ideas, via YouTube)

• Watching Avatar through a Postcolonial and Orientalist Lens (via Academia.edu)

• Jairo Funez on Twitter

• Edward Said - Framed: The Politics of Stereotypes in News (Al Jazeera English, via YouTube)

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Yes We Cant: Anti-Languages and Argots - Ep 163

Come along for an exploration of anti-languages and the qualities that make them successful in building community and maintaining safety among the people that develop them. From occupational jargon to survival as a marginalized group to being hip with the kids, we tour a few of these languages, and subject everyone to a 16th century dialogue with translation.

Links

• O latín dos canteiros en Cabana de Bergantiños (Madrygal, in Galician)

• Anti-Languages (American Anthropologist)

• The Language of the Underworld and its Sociolinguistic Significance (Contributions to the Study of Language, Literature and Culture)

• The secret “anti-languages” you’re not supposed to know (BBC Future)

• The Book of Vagabonds and Beggars: With a Vocabulary of Their Language (via Google Books)

• A caveat or warning for common cursetors, vulgarly called vagabonds. Whereunto is added, The tale of the second taking of the counterfeit crank (via Google Books)

• Uncovering Thieves’ Cant, the Elizabethan Slang of the Underworld (MentalFloss)

• Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (via Project Gutenberg)

• A brief history of Polari: the curious after-life of the dead language for gay men (The Conversation)

• The Polari Bible (Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence)

• Putting on the Dish (via YouTube)

• Putting on the Dish Screenplay (Brian and Karl)

• This Month in Linguistics History: Lavender Language/Linguistics (Linguistic Society of America)

• Cants And ‘Anti-Languages’ — The Hidden World Of Secret Languages (Babbel Magazine)

• Verlan - French Slang (ThoughtCo)

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Linguistics and Endangered Languages with Dr. Chris Donlay - Ep 106

Anna and Amber finally get some much-needed linguistics help from Dr. Chris Donlay. We talk about his unconventional academic path and his work recording and studying endangered languages! Plus, he schools us on how language shapes our perception of the world, how old spoken language *might* be, and what to do with a linguistics degree.

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It's Time to Talk About the Future - Ep 100

This week, for our ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE, Anna and Amber bend their brains around the archaeology of the future and the future of archaeology. What will excavation look like in 100, 1,000, or 5,000 years? What about human evolution? Human culture? Language? We come up with more questions than answers, and have a great time doing it. THANK YOU for getting us to Episode 100!

Links

• Chicken Bones May Be the Legacy of Our Time (Smithsonian)

• The broiler chicken as a signal of a human reconfigured biosphere (Royal Society Open Science)

• Changes in the lead isotopic composition of blood, diet and air in Australia over a decade: Globalization and implications for future isotopic studies (Environmental Research)

• Dietary Heterogeneity among Western Industrialized Countries Reflected in the Stable Isotope Ratios of Human Hair (PLoS One)

• The Future of Archaeology Is 'Spacejunk' (The Atlantic)

• The Future of Archeology Is Plastic (Medium)

• The past, present and future of human evolution (Nature)

• What May Become of Homo sapiens (Scientific American)

• Edible Insects and Human Evolution (via Project MUSE)

• Dougal Dixon - After Man (A Zoology of the Future) 1981 (Monster Brains blog)

• Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future (via WorldCat)

• How Afrofuturism Can Help the World Mend (Wired)

• The Long Now Foundation

• What will English language look like in the future? (Oxford Academic on YouTube)

• What will the English language be like in 100 years? (The Conversation)

• Esperanto (Encyclopedia Britannica)

• Incubus (1966) on YouTube

• Hello (Adele Cover) - Esperanto version (YouTube)

• Pleistocenese: A Language of 40,000 Years Ago (Justin B. Rye)

• Futurese: The American Language in 3000 AD (Justin B. Rye)

• Beyond Biohazard: Why Danger Symbols Can’t Last Forever (99% Invisible)

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Mark My Words: Linguistics! - Ep 81

In this episode, Amber and Anna talk about talking. It’s finally an episode on linguistics! We think about Neanderthal speech, wrestle with syntax and semantics, and have a whole language family reunion.

Links

• What is Speech? What is Language? (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)

• The Neanderthal Throat—Did Neanderthals Speak? (Sapiens)

• Introduction to Linguistics (UCLA Linguistics)

• Glottolog
  

• Map of Indo-European Languages (Wikimedia)

• The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (via Google Books)

• The Origins of Proto-Indo-European: The Caucasian Substrate Hypothesis (Journal of Indo European Studies)

• Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe (Nature)

• Mysterious Indo-European homeland may have been in the steppes of Ukraine and Russia (Science)

• Telling Tales in Proto-Indo-European (Archaeology Magazine)

• Language Isolates and Their History, or, What’s Weird, Anyway?

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