Linguistic anthropologists investigate how language use both presupposes and creates social relations in cultural context (Silverstein, 1985; Duranti, 1997; Agha, 2006). Theories and methods from linguistic anthropology have been productively applied in educational research for the past 40 years. This chapter describes key aspects of a linguistic anthropological approach, reviews research in wh...

By shaping the genomes of ancient populations, selection pressure allowed individuals to adapt to local environments and stressors. Well-known examples include thalassemia and sickle cell disease, which offered protection against malaria in Mediterranean and African populations, respectively. More recently, variations in the lactase gene have been identified among populations with a long histor...

Aims: The paper aims at providing an exhaustive overview of studies small-scale multilingualism, a type language ecology typical of—but not exclusive to—indigenous communities with small numbers speakers. We identify the similarities and differences among situations such which lay foundations for future typology this kind ecology. Approach data: outline importance ideologies multilingualism in ...

The subject of this research is linguistic (or: language) audit. The term is new and not being widely used so far. Linguistic audit, in particular, is offered as a service of linguistic-consulting agencies’ activities. Modern linguistic consulting, according to the author, is a form of stimulating theoretical and practical development of linguistic ecology, a new branch of applied linguistics, ...

abstract purpose - the aim of this paper is to describe the population ecology theory through fractal thinking, an emergent human operating system that is creative, adaptive, healthy, and evolutionary; furthermore, a parallel is drawn between the population ecology model and the fractal structure. top-down hierarchies are typically characterized by command and control systems of the authority t...

This HOPE minisymposium has been prompted by a question I have been asking friends in anthropology for some time now, namely, where are the writers who are revisiting and rethinking the history of economic anthropology? Lest one wonders if this question asks for something that no one wants, or else is hopelessly naive, let me quickly add that, in stark contrast to economics, anthropology has we...

1 Background In 2013, the Japanese Ministry of the Environment issued the “Third Fundamental Plan for Establishing a Sound Material-Cycle Society” (Ministry of the Environment 2013). The plan explains that, in order to create a sound material-cycle society, it will be necessary not only to focus on societal material flow and improve resource productivity, but also to focus on societal material ...